The Making of the Hindu Normative

Ghosh, Bishnupriya

doi:10.1215/01903659-10300679

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Research Article| May 01 2023

The Making of the Hindu Normative

Bishnupriya Ghosh

Bishnupriya Ghosh is professor of global studies and English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first two books, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (2011), addressed cultures of globalization. Her recent work is placed at the intersection of global studies and environmental media studies. She has co-edited (with Bhaskar Sarkar) The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (2020) and has recently published a book on viral emergence titled The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (2023).

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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 211–222.

https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-10300679

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This essay reviews Anustup Basu's book Hindutva as Political Monotheism (2020) in the context of current debates over Hindu political theology after the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral wins of 2014 and 2018. The book charts the consolidation of Hinduism as a monotheistic imperative ever since its inception in the second decade of the nineteenth century, and its axiomatic place in present‐day masculinist majoritarian India—“Modi's India.” This review places the book's historical reading of political Hinduism and its arguments on an informatic Hindutva mediascape (Hindutva 2.0) alongside recent books with similar ambitions.

monotheism, the political, advertised modernization, intellectual history

2023

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