{"product_id":"hindutva-and-violence-hardcover","title":"Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVinayak Chaturvedi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHindutva and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), the most controversial Indian political thinker of the twentieth century and a key architect of Hindu nationalism. Examining his central claim that \"Hindutva is not a word but a history,\" the book argues that, for Savarkar, this history was not a total history, a complete history, or a narrative history. Rather, its purpose was to trace key historical events to a powerful source-the font of motivation for \"chief actors\" of the past who had turned to violence in a permanent war for Hindutva as the founding principle of a Hindu nation. At the center of Savarkar's writings are historical characters who not only participated in ethical warfare against invaders, imperialists, and conquerors in India, but also became Hindus in acts of violence. He argues that the discipline of history provides the only method for interpreting Hindutva.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book also shows how Savarkar developed his conceptualization of history as a way into the meaning of Hindutva. Savarkar wrote extensively, from analyses of the nineteenth century to studies of antiquity, to draw up his histories of Hindus. He also turned to a wide range of works, from the epic tradition to contemporary social theory and world history, as his way of explicating \"Hindutva\" and \"history.\" By examining Savarkar's key writings on history, historical methodology, and historiography, Vinayak Chaturvedi provides an interpretation of the philosophical underpinnings of Hindutva. Savarkar's interpretation of Hindutva, he demonstrates, requires above all grappling with his idea of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinayak Chaturvedi \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePeasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eMapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pandemic: Perspectives on Asia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 479\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42098494570631,"sku":"9781438488776","price":169.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e8640bd66f7646d87fec5f860c01d29b.webp?v=1732363896","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/hindutva-and-violence-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}