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ANNOUNCEMENT🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

We've re-released, in Kindle edition globally & print editions in major foreign markets (via Amazon):

The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism: An Ethnographic Account

By Shubh Mathur

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The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism: An Ethnographic Account

By Shubh Mathur

Tags: Culture, #Fascism, #Gujarat, Hinduism, #Hindutva, Islam, Justice, Muslims, #Nationalism

The Kindle edition in India is just ₹150!
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Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism: An Ethnographic Account amzn.eu/d/fehw8Kz

An ethnographic account of the rise of Hindu nationalism in the north Indian state of Rajasthan during the period 1990-94,

It looks at the transformation of cultural meanings in everyday life that make possible the political success & anti-minority violence of the Hindu right.

Many accounts of the Hindu right that present images of religious frenzy & fanaticism are misleading bc they draw attention away from the world of the everyday & ordinary, from homes, workplaces, schools & communities where realities of Hindu nationalism are created & maintained.

This book takes seriously the claims of RSS activists that theirs is a cultural organization, and that its main task is ‘character- building’, in order to answer the central question:
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How does one comprehend the selves that are capable of the extraordinary violence witnessed in India at the turn of the millennium?

The patterns of anti-minority violence that accompanies the rise of Hindu nationalism show that it follows not a political or economic logic, but a cultural one.

The geographic & demographic distribution of violence maps & confirms cultural beliefs abt the nation & its enemies.

Finally, this book argues that media and academic discourses on Hindu nationalism function to produce what has been called ‘cultural anesthesia’, diffusing and deflecting questions..
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..about agency and accountability while silencing the experience of the victims and excluding the cultural idioms which provide them means of comprehension and healing.

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Shubh Mathur is an anthropologist whose work focuses on minorities, violence, human rights, gender & immigration. She received her doctorate from the New School for Social Research, NY. She is at present Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University.

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