Screen LibraryMilitant publics in India Physical culture and violence in the making of a modern polity /
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230112575, 2011. |
| Carrier Form: | 284 p. |
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9780230112575 9780230370630 : 0230370632 : |
| CLC: | G807 |
| Contents: | 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. |