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Cleansing the Nation

By Raka Shome

Cleansing the Nation

By Raka Shome

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In Cleansing the Nation, Raka Shome explores the logics of governmentality of contemporary Hindu nationalism in India by advancing the concept of the "Hindu modern." Analyzing a national cleanliness program and other development projects, Shome shows how the Hindu modern-a form of national governmentality that disciplines and regulates individual subjects to create desirable "clean" citizens-inscribes Hindu nationalism in India. Focused on security, progress, and development while celebrating and protecting the figure of the upper-caste Hindu woman, the Hindu modern works toward a religious and casteist cleansing of the nation that rewrites Indian modernity as a purified and cleansed Hindu modernity. It shores up caste and religious inequalities around who is authentically Indian, reproducing historical violence against and exclusions of caste, gender, and religion, especially toward Muslims, Dalits, and Adivasis. By outlining how the Hindu modern sutures Hindu-ness to the contemporary Indian national project of modernity, Shome helps us further understand projects of national purification and cleanliness within global populist authoritarian movements.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
302
Release Date:
2025-11-11
Publication Date:
2025-11-11
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478032758
ISBN13:
9781478032755
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
493 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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