Curating Collective Memory: Vulnerability, Victimhood, and Trauma in the Hindu Nationalist Movement, 1820-2022

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Brief Overview

Using interpretive methods, this paper traces transformations in the language of vulnerability, victimhood, and collective trauma across four phases of Hindu nationalist thought, stretching from 1820 to 2022.

Author

• Maya Nandakumar, The University of Chicago