TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hansen,Thomas Blom
TI  - The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
SN  - 9781400823055 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL1215.P65H36 1999 
U1  - 294.5/5/0954324.254082 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - 1977-
KW  - Hinduism and politics
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - India
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Religion
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Hinduism / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents
N2  - The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Rather than interpreting Hindu nationalism as a mainly religious phenomenon, or a strictly political movement, Hansen places the BJP within the context
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