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17 - Killing for the Hindu Nation

Hindu Nationalism and Its Violent Excesses

from Part III - Religious Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2023

By
Kathinka Frøystad
Edited by
Margo Kitts
Margo Kitts
Affiliation:
Hawai'i Pacific University, Honolulu
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Summary

What drives the increasingly violent impulses of Hindu nationalism in India? This chapter emphasizes the abyss between, on the one hand, its anxieties about Hindu minoritization and territorial dismemberment and, on the other, its retrotopian visions about revitalizing a purported Hindu golden age.

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dystopiaretrotopiareligious demographyimpunity
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The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War , pp. 349 - 368
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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