| Description |
1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I -- Introduction -- Part II Selected Writings -- A: Autobiographical -- Chapter 1 Reminiscences of My Childhood -- B: The Philosophical and Social Foundations of Hindutva -- Chapter 2 What Is Hindutva? -- Chapter 3 Soaham (I Am Thou): -- Chapter 4 Loy (Dissolution of the Soul): -- Chapter 5 Kaa Pantha? (Which Is the Correct Path to Adopt?) -- Chapter 6 Nishkam Dharma -- Chapter 7 Hindu Polytheism: Political Sagacity in Religion |
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Chapter 8 The Varna System and the Formation of Our National Character -- Chapter 9 The Ideal Hindu Diet -- Chapter 10 Forbearance in the Hindu Tradition -- Chapter 11 The World as a Mart: The Source of Happiness and Aesthetic Delight -- Chapter 12 Lessons in Self-disciplining and the Foundations of Character -- C: Hindutva as Patriarchy -- Chapter 13 Hindu Marriages -- Chapter 14 Shakuntalatattva: A Critique of Kalidas's Abhigyanshakuntala -- Chapter 15 Savitritattva: Savitri's Tale -- Chapter 16 Two Hindu Wives -- D: Thoughts on Language and Literature -- Chapter 17 Tale of the English Scholar |
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Chapter 18 Of Biographies -- Chapter 19 The State of Contemporary Bengali Literature -- Chapter 20 Thoughts on Bankim's Anandamath -- Chapter 21 The Prodigious Poet -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book weaves the past with the present to trace and analyse the distinctive but reiterative evocations of Hindutva ideology in the modern-colonial period. It studies the concept of Hindutva as understood by its first major spokesperson Chandranath Basu, a formidable late 19th-century scholar-critic. T |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Hindutva -- India -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040117989 |
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1040117988 |
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