Hindutva and Violence : V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History /
Vinayak Chaturvedi.
- First SUNY Press edition.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Contents -- Images -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- part I: Principles of History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reading Mazzini in London -- 3. Interpreting Mazzini for Maharashtra -- 4. From Principio to Tattva -- 5. From Duty to Dharma -- 6. Reading History and Political Action -- 7. The Assassination and the Debate -- 8. Writing a Banned History -- 9. A Mazzinian History of India -- 10. Violence in the Revolution -- 11. The Revolutionary -- 12. The Spirit of Revolution -- 13. A Failed Revolution -- 14. Conclusion Part II: Hindutva is History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Writings of Prisoner Number 32778 -- 3. The Word: "Hindutva" -- 4. Intellectual Bricolage -- 5. The Methods for Writing a Conceptual History -- 6. Conjecture as Method -- 7. From Buddhism to the Vedic Church -- 8. Uses of Vernacular Sources -- 9. Geography, Maps, Motherland -- 10. Blood, Census, Fatherland -- 11. Civilisation, History, Holy Land -- 12. Conclusion -- part III: Modes of Hindu History -- Mode 1: Maratha History as Hindu History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hindutva Without Politics -- 3. Rethinking Maratha Historiography 4. Pan-Hindu Unity -- 5. Rethinking the Eighteenth Century -- 6. The Hindu Spirit -- 7. A History of Spirits -- 8. The End of Maratha History? -- Mode 2: Autobiography as Hindu History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Writing the Impossible Autobiography -- 3. Biography as Autobiography -- 4. A Hidden Life -- 5. The Plural Identities of the Hero -- 6. Conclusion -- part IV: The Impossible History -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bharat as India -- 3. Itihaas, Research, Translation -- 4. Silencing Hindu Pasts -- 5. Foreigners and Hindus in Ancient History -- 6. The Great War in Modern History 7. Hindu Civility and the Bhagavad Gita -- 8. The Problem of Hindu Chivalry -- 9. The Incomplete Epoch? -- Conclusion -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index
Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.
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Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, 1883-1966 --Political and social views. Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, 1883-1966