Religious Identity and Political Destiny

<I>Religious Identity and Political Destiny: Hindutva in the Culture of Ethnicism</I> is an ethnography of a contentious on-going debate about the place of religion in Indian civic life. Exploring Hindu nationalism from the varied perspectives of its critics in women's activist and Left intellectual circles its ideologues supporters and sympathizers Deepa S. Reddy locates Hindutva in a broader culture of critique in which identity movements of all kinds compete for recognition representation and rights. This book will be of interest to anthropologists historians and sociologists as well as readers of ethno-nationalist movements religion activism global feminisms and all matters Indian/South Asian.