Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-31868-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 779 g

This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017–18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. Focussing on Hindu nationalism in India, this book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on South Asian Partition Studies that shows how tragedy begets tragedy. It tries to answer an urgent, provocative but nevertheless necessary question: 'What does it mean to remember the Partition in the time of fascism?' The author shows what makes up cycles of violence by connecting the reinscription of trauma in Partition memories to the self-serving justifications of the contemporary violence of Hindu nationalism. It analyses how the hegemony of Hindu nationalism has structured the narratives of Hindu Partition survivors and recruited them in service of a putative Hindu nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kohli, Pranav

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Theokratische und religiöse Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Glossary; Prologue: The Linguistic Setting; Part I. The Past and the Present: Introduction; 1. Listening to Ancestors: Ethnography in a Milieu of Memory; Part II: Sacrifice and Suffering: The Purusharth of Refugees; 2. Stories of Purusharth; 3. A Story Half Told: The Moral and Political Claims of Purusharth; 4. Sacrifice and Hard Work: Martyrdom as Theodicy; 5. The Purusharth of Women; Part III. Remembrance and Healing: Reflections on the Post-Partition Context; 6. The Fractured Nomos; 7. Remembering Violence; 8. Remembering Partition in the Time of Fascism; 9. Healing, Victimhood and Ressentiment; Conclusion: Field Notes on Global Authoritarianism; Works Cited; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kohli, Pranav
Pranav Kohli teaches Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is a political anthropologist specialising in race, gender, conflict, authoritarianism and memory with an abiding interest in their intersections with the politics of health.