Memories in the service of the Hindu nation

• Verfasst von: Kohli, Pranav [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Memories in the service of the Hindu nation
• Titelzusatz: the afterlife of the Partition of India
• Verf.angabe: Pranav Kohli
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xiv, 373 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: South Asia in the social sciences ; 22
• ISBN: 978-1-009-31868-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Teilung / (s)Nationalismus / (s)Politik / (s)Gewalt
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Anthropologie
• Sach-SW: Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies
• Sach-SW: Demokratische Ideologien: Konservativismus, Mitte-rechts
• Sach-SW: Mündlich überlieferte Geschichte, Oral History
• Sach-SW: National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
• Sach-SW: Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus
• Sach-SW: Nationalism
• Sach-SW: Nationalismus
• Sach-SW: Oral history
• Sach-SW: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
• Sach-SW: Physical anthropology
• Sach-SW: Religious & theocratic ideologies
• Sach-SW: Religiöse und theokratische Ideologien
• Geograph. SW: India
• Geograph. SW: Indien
• Zeit-SW: Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
• Zeit-SW: c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)
• K10plus-PPN: 184194159X

Abstract

This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. Focussing on Hindu nationalism in India, this book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on South Asian Partition Studies that shows how tragedy begets tragedy. It tries to answer an urgent, provocative but nevertheless necessary question: 'What does it mean to remember the Partition in the time of fascism?' The author shows what makes up cycles of violence by connecting the reinscription of trauma in Partition memories to the self-serving justifications of the contemporary violence of Hindu nationalism. It analyses how the hegemony of Hindu nationalism has structured the narratives of Hindu Partition survivors and recruited them in service of a putative Hindu nation