Fascism in India : race, caste, and Hindutva / Luna Sabastian.
| Author/creator | Sabastian, Luna author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 285 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations. |
| Contents | Introduction -- An Indian Theory of Fascism -- Savarkar's Miscegenous Race -- The Nazi Volk against Kaste -- The Hindu Crown -- After the Dualism of Pakistan -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "Fascism swept the world in the 1920s and 1930s, but not only because of the seductive rhetoric of Mussolini, Hitler, and their collaborators. In India as well, a distinctive brand of fascist thought emerged—influenced by Euro-American ideologies but also departing from them in critical ways. The first systematic examination of this political philosophy, Fascism in India revises our sense of what fascism can be, while demonstrating that it is very much with us in the form of Hindutva, the ethnonationalist movement at the center of Indian politics today. Luna Sabastian offers a novel interpretation of Hindutva: both its canonical formulation by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and its reinvention by Deendayal Upadhyaya after Indian independence. Sabastian shows how Hindutva generated ideas of Hindu race and religion that had the potential to erase Muslims not through genocide or ethnic cleansing but by means of violent absorption. Focusing on aggressive miscegenation, Indian fascists proposed a singular kind of racial project, eschewing notions of purity even while maintaining a starkly eliminationist objective. Fascism in India also grapples with Hindutva ideas of caste and its relation to race—particularly in comparison with Nazi uses of these concepts—and of sovereignty, which Indian fascists envisioned beyond the “blood and soil”�narrative of the nation-state. Finally, Sabastian reflects on Hindutva’s reorientation toward Hindu piety after the creation of Pakistan effectively resolved India’s “Muslim problem.”"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Sabastian, Luna Fascism in India Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2025 9780674302242 |
| LCCN | 2025013687 |
| ISBN | 9780674299436 |
| ISBN | 0674299434 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic publication) |
| ISBN | (electronic publication) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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