Hindu nationalism - as a discourse, a set of organisations, and as a movement - has gained a lot of ground in India, as is evident in the coming to power of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last general elections in 2014.

This book analyses the broader social base of Hindu nationalist organisation in order to understand the growth of 'Hinduva', or Hindu nationalism. It also puts forward the argument that Hindu nationalist thought and predilections are not just the ideological constructions of specific political and/or 'cultural' agents and agencies, but...

This book presents an innovative approach to gender, nationalism, and the relations between them, and analyses the broader social base of Hindu nationalist organisation to understand the growth of 'Hindutva', or Hindu nationalism, in India.

Arguing that Hindu nationalist thought and predilections emerge out of, and, in turn, feed, pre-existing gendered tendencies, the author presents the new concept of 'masculine hegemony', specifically Brahmanical masculine hegemony. The book offers a historical overview of the processes that converge in the making of the identity...