A. Valiani
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2011
9781349294558
Militant Publics in India
Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity
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Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
2011
ISBN13: 9781349294558
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349294558
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
PART I: MODALITIES OF POLITICAL MOBILIZATION Efficacies of Political Action: Physical Culture and the Kinesthetic Politics of Gandhian Nationalism Preparatory Training and Disciplined Satyagraha in Bardoli (1928) Militant Peacekeeping and Subterfugic Violence of the Quit India Movement (1942) PART II: ELABORATING POLITICAL ITINERARIES Physical Culture, Civic Activism, and Hindu Nationalism in the City Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement