Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India

by Thomas Blom Hansen, Christophe Jaffrelot, Angana P. Chatterji

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Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence.
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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0190078170

ISBN13:9780190078171

Release Date:August 2019

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:544 Pages

Weight:1.70 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 5.7" x 8.7"

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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