Slouching towards Ayodhya (HB)

The three essays in this volume, focussing respectively on the international, national and regional aspects of Hindutva, provide three successive pictures of Hindutva, each, as it were, closer up than the one before, each probing progressively deeper into its dynamics. They analyse the structural basis, historical roots and political entrenchment of Hindutva, and assess the size of the task before the forces who oppose it.

CONTENTS

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. A Field Guide to Rough Beasts: The Right Politics to Come
2. Culturalism, Hindutva and the Contemporary Bourgeoisie
3. Hindutva’s Gujarat: The Image of India’s Future?

Cover: The Saffron Wave (1991) oil on canvas, by B.V. Suresh. Collection: Devinder Sahney, Mumbai.