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Autore: | Bapu Prabhu |
Titolo: | Hindu Mahasabha in colonial North India, 1915-1930 : constructing nation and history / / Prabhu Bapu |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
Disciplina: | 322/.10954209041 |
Soggetto topico: | Hindutva - India - Uttar Pradesh - History |
Hinduism and politics - India - Uttar Pradesh | |
Nationalism - Religious aspects - Hinduism | |
Hinduism - Relations - Islam | |
Islam - Relations - Hinduism | |
Soggetto geografico: | Uttar Pradesh (India) Politics and government |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-237) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Hindu nationalism -- pt. 2. Sangathan ideology -- pt. 3. Hindu nation. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition in 1947 was a result of the campaign and politics of the Hindu rightwing rather than the Islamist politics of the Muslim League alone.The book explains that the Mahasabha articulated Hindu nationalist ideology as a means of constructing a distinct Hindu political identity and unity among the Hindus in |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hindu Mahasabha in colonial North India, 1915-1930 |
ISBN: | 0-203-10574-5 |
1-283-89386-X | |
1-136-25500-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779445503321 |
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