Militant Publics in India

Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781349294558
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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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ISBN13:9781349294558
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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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

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