دانلود کتاب Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present; Narratives from Orissa

This book is an erudite and elegiac exploration of Hindu nationalism in India today. It offers a revealing account of Hindu militant mobilizations as an authoritarian movement manifest throughout culture, polity, and economy, religion and law, class and caste, on gender, body, land, and memory. Tracing the continuities between Hindutva and Hindu cultural dominance, this book maps the architectures of civic and despotic governmentalities contouring Hindu nationalism in public, domestic, and everyday life. In chronicling concerted action against Christians and Muslims, Adivasis and Dalits, through spectacles, events, public executions, the riots in Kandhamal of December 2007 and August-September 2008, the planned, methodical politics of terror unfolds in its multiple registers. At the intersections of Anthropology, Postcolonial, Subaltern, and South Asia Studies, Angana P. Chatterji asks critical questions of nation making, cultural nationalism, and subaltern disenfranchisement. As a Foucauldian history of the present, this text asserts the role of ethical knowledge production as counter-memory. Critical acclaim for Violent Gods Angana Chatterji tells the story of the Orissa pogroms from the perspective of the voiceless victims. This book is an inspiring example of "emancipatory scholarship". Chatterji's Narratives of the horror and heroism in Kandhamal interrogates our complacency and challenges our conscience. -- Rudolf C. Heredia, Economic and Political Weekly The 'transformation' of Orissa into another Hindutva lab is the central focus of Angana Chatterji's book. Of particular importance in Chatterji's work is the impressive number of interviews... allowing her to get to know a broad spectrum of voices, including revisiting victims of violence. Violent Gods is ... an outcome of a process of interaction and reflection by a researcher who willingly slips into the role of an activist. -- Subhash Gatade, HIMAL Valuable and hitherto undocumented information. -- Parvathi Menon, The Hindu ... Violent Gods, a book authored by scholar and activist Angana P Chatterji, is an important one as it provides the first compendium of material on the contemporary history of the Sangh Parivar and Hindu nationalists in Orissa. -- Archana Prasad, People's Democracy