Making India Hindu religion, community, and the politics of democracy in India

Previous ed. published as: Contesting the nation : religion, community, and the politics of democracy in India. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index.

Introduction. Ayodhya : a window on the world / David Ludden -- The iconography of Rama's chariot / Richard H. Davis -- Mass movement or elite conspiracy? : the puzzle of Hindu nationalism / Amrita Basu -- Communal mobilization and changing majority in Uttar Pradesh / Zoya Hasan -- Mass media : images, mobilization, and communalism / Victoria L. Farmer -- Music, the media, and communal relations in north India, past and present / Peter Manuel -- Soldier monks and militant sadhus / William R. Pinch -- Imagining Hindurashtra : the Hindu and the Muslim in Bankim Chandra's writings / Tanika Sarkar -- The myth of unity : colonial and national narratives / Mushirul Hasan -- Contesting in public : colonial legacies and contemporary communalism / Sandria B. Freitag -- Communalism and modernity / Richard G. Fox -- Writing violence / Peter van der Veer -- Indian nationalism and the politics of Hindutva / Sumit Sarkar.