Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths
Hindu Nationalism: Origins, Ideologies and Modern Myths
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印度教民族主义：起源、意识形态和现代神话
DOI：
10.5860/choice.40-1083
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
20.1
通讯作者：
Chetan Bhatt
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作者：
Chetan Bhatt
自20世纪80年代初以来，印度威权主义的印度教群众运动和政治组织的兴起，对近代后期沙文主义种族、宗教和民族主义运动的复苏提出了根本性的问题。这本书考察了从上世纪末到现在的印度民族主义和印度教至上主义的历史和意识形态，并批判性地评价了其主要思想家的社会和政治哲学和著作。印度教民族主义基于这样一种说法，即它是印度原始和真正的种族和宗教传统的土著产物。相反，这本书认为，这些说法是基于相对较新的观点，通常与殖民时期的西方影响有关。这些影响包括18和19世纪欧洲浪漫主义和启蒙运动的理性主义思想，这些思想专注于古老的原始主义、进化论、有机论、活力论和种族。除了考虑20世纪30年代国家社会主义和法西斯主义对印度民族主义的意识形态影响外，这本书还关注了雅利安主义如何在当代印度以意想不到的形式继续得到推广。作者利用广泛的历史和当代资料，根据当代关于少数民族、世俗公民、伦理和现代性的辩论，考虑了印度民族主义复兴的后果。
The rise of authoritarian Hindu mass movements and political formations in India since the early 1980s raises fundamental questions about the resurgence of chauvinistic ethnic, religious and nationalist movements in the late modern period. This book examines the history and ideologies of Hindu nationalism and Hindutva from the end of the last century to the present, and critically evaluates the social and political philosophies and writings of its main thinkers. Hindu nationalism is based on the claim that it is an indigenous product of the primordial and authentic ethnic and religious traditions of India. The book argues instead that these claims are based on relatively recent ideas, frequently related to western influences during the colonial period. These influences include eighteenth and nineteenth century European Romantic and Enlightenment rationalist ideas preoccupied with archaic primordialism, evolution, organicism, vitalism and race. As well as considering the ideological impact of National Socialism and Fascism on Hindu nationalism in the 1930s, the book also looks at how Aryanism continues to be promoted in unexpected forms in contemporary India. Using a wide range of historical and contemporary sources, the author considers the consequences of Hindu nationalist resurgence in the light of contemporary debates about minorities, secular citizenship, ethics and modernity.