Hindutva, in the new millennium, has evolved into a national political ideology. Rooted within the Brahminical social structures, its growth has been facilitated by neoliberal capitalism and global flows of culture and capital. This new assemblage of power demands the attention of intellectuals, since its hegemony has been growing phenomenally, radically altering social institutions and shaping subjectivities for the new India. Though there have been well-researched books closely studying this phenomenon, very few texts analyze it in its totality, tracing the evolution from Hinduism to Hindutva, through the literary imagination and cultural manifestations from the past, reaching up to the present India.
Hindutva as Political Monotheism is another addition to this repertoire of critical studies on the nature of Hindutva and its evolution into its present form. Anustup Basu takes a researcher's perspective and approaches the topic with academic rigor and passion, thereby contributing immensely to the study of the...
