The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism
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The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism

The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism

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Manisha Basu (Author)  

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This book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. This ideology, the book assesses, aspires to be a pan-Indian, urban form that is home to the emerging, digitally enabled, technocratic middle classes of the nation. Through close analyses of the writings of a range of self-styled public intellectuals, from Arun Shourie and Swapan Dasgupta to Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi, this book maps this new avatar of Hindutva. Finally, in analyzing the language of metropolitan Hindutva, it arrives at an emerging idea of India as part of what Amitav Ghosh has called a contemporary Anglophone empire. This is the first extended scholarly effort to theorize a politics of language in relation to the dangers of such an imperializing Hindutva.
Manisha Basu teaches in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are postcolonial theory and literatures, nationalism and philology, secularism, globalization, African literatures, literary theory and cultural studies, South Asian literatures and cultures, and language and imperialism.
  • Contributor: Manisha Basu
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781107149878
  • Number of Pages: 227
  • Packaged Dimensions: 160x237x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 470
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2016-11-02
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Manisha Basu teaches in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are postcolonial theory and literatures, nationalism and philology, secularism, globalization, African literatures, literary theory and cultural studies, South Asian literatures and cultures, and language and imperialism.

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