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In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, Basu demonstrates how Western and Indian theorists subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic cults featuring m
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Anustup Basu
- Publisher
- Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781478010944
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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