Soul and Sword

The Endless Battle over Political Hinduism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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"Sengupta has written an in-depth study of the development of political Hinduism in India.... Readers of history, religion, and politics and with interest in India and its role in the world will find this detailed work appealing." - BooklistThis is the first intellectual history of political Hinduism from its medieval origins to current-day India. It provides the ideological context of India’s rise economically and politically in the world in the last decade, illustrating not only where political Hinduism comes from, but more importantly, where it seeks to go. It provides an intellectual framework not only to understand the rise of Narendra Modi and his politics in the world’s largest democracy, but also India’s political, economic, and diplomatic choices as it negotiates its space as a rapidly rising, billion-strong democracy in a fluid and precarious world order.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-12-01
Mått157 x 236 x 23 mm
Vikt445 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538126837

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Hinduism inom Filosofi och religion
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Politik och statsskick inom Samhalle och politik

Hindol Sengupta is an award-winning author of ten books. He won the Wilbur Award in 2018 for Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World, the first book on Hinduism to win the prestigious prize given by The Religion Communicators Council of America. In India, he has wonthe Valley of Words prize for The Man Who Saved India, the Kalinga Literature Festival award for Sing, Dance and Pray, and the PSF prize for public service through writing. He has been shortlisted for the Hayek Prize given by the Manhattan Institute in memory of the Nobel laureate economist F. A. Hayek for Recasting India. He has been a Chevening Scholar at the University of Oxford, a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, and has a doctorate from the Geneva School of Diplomacy. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He has been a senior journalist at the Indian edition of Fortune magazine, Bloomberg TV, CNBC and CNN. This is his 11th book.

Sengupta has written an in-depth study of the development of political Hinduism in India. Looking at India’s history, he shows how Hindus resisted the Mughals and British and argues convincingly that it was in the early nineteenth century that several Hindu thinkers started developing political Hinduism as a spiritual, political, cultural, and economic force. He surveys the development of this movement by its major leaders such as Vivekananda, Savarkar, and Mookerjee and discusses the concept of Hindutva. He also considers how the movement used Hindu sources such as its scriptures, epics, and Sanskrit to reestablish Indian identity. He traces developments in India up to the present with the rise of PM Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the concept of India as a civilizational state with the goal of being a world teacher. He also indicates that political Hinduism is seen as a third way between the globalization of the West and communism, both of which are viewed as materialistic. Readers of history, religion, and politics and with interest in India and its role in the world will find this detailed work appealing.