PDF Religious Revivalism As Nationalist Discourse: Swami Vivekananda and New Hinduism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal by Shamita Basu in History

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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.