TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hansen, Thomas Blom
TI  - The Saffron Wave : Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
SN  - 0691006717
U1  - 320.54954 
PY  - 1999///, 2001
CY  - New Delhi, Princeton, NJ
PB  - Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press
KW  - Hinduism and politics -- India. Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. India -- Politics and government -- 1977-
N1  - The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Rather than interpreting Hindu nationalism as a mainly religious phenomenon, or a strictly political movement, Hansen places the BJP within the context
ER  -