TY - BOOK AU - Chaturvedi,Vinayak TI - Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History SN - 9781438488783 AV - DS481 .H563 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, KW - Hindutva KW - India KW - History KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3088170&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -