"Slouching Towards Ayodhya’ is a powerful statement on the stridency of militant Hindu nationalism. Radhika Desai, its author, writes with passion and understanding, and her arguments merit scholarly attention."
- Mushirul Hasan
"The author of these essays shows exceptional command of the complex relationship between the various forces that have helped legitimize and sustain the onslaught of Hindutva. This is a 'must' for students of all forms of cultural nationalism, everywhere."
- Jayant Lele
description
The three essays in this volume, focussing 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.
about the author
Dr. Radhika Desai teaches politics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of 'Intellectuals and Socialism: Social Democrats and the British Labour Party', which was nominated "Book of the Month" by New Statesman and Society. Among other things, she is currently working on a book on the rise of Hindutva.
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