HINDUISM IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE (OIP)

This volume investigates the nature of nationalism and modernization embraced by the nineteenth and twentieth-century religious reform movements and their relationship with contemporary Hindutva. The essays critically analyse the influence of key personalities--Vivekananda Aurobindo and Dayanand Saraswati--on the emergence of ideas that later came to be known as Hindutva. This book will interest students scholars political analysts sociologists historians and the informed non-specialist reader of South Asian religion culture and politics.