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020			_a9781107149878
082			_a320.540954 _bBAS-R
100			_a Basu, Manisha
245			_aRhetoric of hindu India _b:language and urban nationalism
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2017
300			_a xiii, 217p.
504			_aIncludes Bibliography,Index
520			_aThis book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. This ideology, the book assesses, aspires to be a pan-Indian, urban form that is home to the emerging, digitally enabled, technocratic middle classes of the nation. Through close analyses of the writings of a range of self-styled public intellectuals, from Arun Shourie and Swapan Dasgupta to Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi, this book maps this new avatar of Hindutva. Finally, in analyzing the language of metropolitan Hindutva, it arrives at an emerging idea of India as part of what Amitav Ghosh has called a contemporary Anglophone empire. This is the first extended scholarly effort to theorize a politics of language in relation to the dangers of such an imperializing Hindutva.
650			_aNationalism-Political aspects _vHinduism and politics _vPolitics and government _zIndia
942			_2ddc _cBK