Militant publics in India: physical culture and violence in the making of a modern polity

Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. ARAFAAT A. VALIANI Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College, USA. INDICE: PART I: MODALITIES OF POLITICAL MOBILIZATION - Efficacies of Political Action: Physical Culture and the Kinesthetic Politics of Gandhian Nationalism - Preparatory Training and Disciplined Satyagraha in Bardoli (1928)- Militant Peacekeeping and Subterfugic Violence of the Quit India Movement (1942) - PART II: ELABORATING POLITICAL ITINERARIES - Physical Culture, Civic Activism, and Hindu Nationalism in the City - Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu NationalistMovement -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11257-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 284
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés