Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva
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List of Plates -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction/Daniela Berti -- PART I: Hindutva-affi liated Organisations and Local Mediators -- 1. Music and Politics in Kerala: Hindu Nationalists Versus Marxists/Christine -- 2. The Local Enactment of Hindutva: Writing Stories on Local Gods in Himachal Pradesh/Daniela Berti -- 3. Casting Community, Culture and Faith: Hindutva’s Entrenchment in Arunachal Pradesh/Pralay Kanungo -- 4. The Shakha and the Mandal: The Shiv Sena, ‘Popular Culture’ and People’s Associations in Mumbai/Djallal G. -- PART II: Convergence, Gurus and Sects -- 5. Health, Yoga and the Nation: Dr Karandikar and the Yoga Therapy Centre, Pune, Maharashtra/Anne-Cécile Hoyez -- 6. On the Margins of Hindutva: The Krishna Pranâmî Sect in Nepal and India/Gérard Toffin -- 7. In the Image of Jhulelal: Sindhi Hindus, Humanitarian Action and Hindu Nationalism/Frédérique Pagani -- 8. Social Services, Muscular Hinduism and Implicit Militancy in West Bengal: The Case of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha/Raphaël Voix -- PART III: Entrenchment amidst -- 9. The Symbolism of Krishna in Uttar Pradesh Politics in the 1990s: Understanding the ‘Normalisation’ of Hindutva in North India/Lucia Michelutti -- 10. Casting the ‘Sweepers’: Local Politics of Sanskritisation, Caste and Labour/Nicolas Jaoul -- 11. The Boa and its Petty Enemy: Contemporary Relationships between Hindu Nationalists and the Sikhs/Christine Moliner -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

About the Author

Daniela Berti is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, and affiliated to the Centre for Himalayan Studies, Villejuif, France.

Nicolas Jaoul is Researcher, Anthropology, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, attached to the Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS, EHESS), Paris and affiliated to the Centre d’Etudes de l’Asie du Sud, Paris.

Pralay Kanungo is Professor, Centre for Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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