TY  - GEN
T1  - Savarkar and the making of Hindutva
A1  - Bakhle, Janaki
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2024
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1390879710
AB  - "Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India's struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India's tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva is the first comprehensive intellectual history of one of the most contentious political thinkers of the twentieth century. Janaki Bakhle examines the full range of Savarkar's voluminous writings in his native language of Marathi, from political and historical works to poetry, essays, and speeches. She reveals the complexities in the various positions he took as a champion of the beleaguered Hindu community, an anticaste progressive, an erudite if polemical historian, a pioneering advocate for women's dignity, and a patriotic poet. This critical examination of Savarkar's thought shows that Hindutva is as much about the aesthetic experiences that have been attached to the idea of India itself as it is a militant political program that has targeted the Muslim community in pursuit of power in postcolonial India.By bringing to light the many legends surrounding Savarkar, Bakhle shows how this figure from a provincial locality in colonial India rose to world-historical importance. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva also uncovers the vast hagiographic literature that has kept alive the myth of Savarkar as a uniquely brave, brilliant, and learned revolutionary leader of the Hindu nation"--
OP  - 501
CN  - DS481.S36 B33 2024
SN  - 9780691251486
SN  - 0691251487
SN  - 9780691250366
KW  - Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, : 1883-1966.
KW  - Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, : 1883-1966
KW  - Nationalists : India : Biography.
KW  - Revolutionaries : India : Biography.
KW  - Intellectuals : India : Biography.
KW  - Hindutva.
KW  - Authors, Marathi : 20th century : Biography.
KW  - Indian intellectuals : Biography.
KW  - Nationalistes : Inde : Biographies.
KW  - Révolutionnaires : Inde : Biographies.
KW  - Intellectuels : Inde : Biographies.
KW  - Intégrisme hindou.
KW  - Écrivains marathes : 20e siècle : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / History.
KW  - Authors, Marathi
KW  - Hindutva
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Nationalists
KW  - Revolutionaries
KW  - India
KW  - Biography & non-fiction prose.
KW  - Biography.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Biographies
ER  -