Slouching Towards Ayodhya

Author: Radhika Desai
Publisher: Three Essays
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 163
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188394076

Description

The three essays in this volume, focusing respectively on the international, national and regional aspects of Hindutva provide three successive pictures of Hindutva.

Each, as it were, closer up than the one before, each probing progressively deeper into its dynamics. They analyse the structural basis, historical roots and political entrenchment of Hindutva, and assess the size of the task before the forces who oppose it.

Contents

Preface

A Field Guide to Rough Beasts:
The Right Politics to Come

Culturalism, Hindutva and the Contemporary Bourgeoisie

Hindutva’s Gujarat:
The Image of India’s Future?