Producing Pasts and Altering Futures: Hindu Nationalism and the Demons of Economic Development in India

• In Event: Religion and Politics: Perspectives from India and Pakistan

Brief Overview

This paper reviews the seemingly contradictory Hindu-nationalist goals of the RSS and the West-oriented economic development goals of the BJP in India, arguing that this tension is embodied in a two-dimensional citizen–subject.

Author

• Nandini Dey, Johns Hopkins University