Militant Publics in India

Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11257-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valiani, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: MODALITIES OF POLITICAL MOBILIZATION   Efficacies of Political Action: Physical Culture and the Kinesthetic Politics of Gandhian Nationalism   Preparatory Training and Disciplined Satyagraha in Bardoli (1928)   Militant Peacekeeping and Subterfugic Violence of the Quit India Movement (1942)  PART II: ELABORATING POLITICAL ITINERARIES   Physical Culture, Civic Activism, and Hindu Nationalism in the City Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement

Über Autor(innen)

Arafaat A. Valiani is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oregon, USA.