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Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India: Narrating a Hindu past under the BJP (Routledge Studies in South Asian History) by Lars Tore Flåten is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the National Council of Educational Research and Training occurred, and in 2002 four new history textbooks were published. This book examines the new textbooks which were introduced, considering them to be integral to the BJP’s political agenda. It analyses the ways in which their narrative and explanatory frameworks defined and invoked Hindu identity. Employing the concept of decontextualization, the author argues that notions of Hindu cultural similarity were conveyed, particularly as the textbooks paid scarce attention to social, geographical and temporal contexts in their approaches to Indian history. The book shows that intrinsic to the textbooks’ emphasis on similarity is a systematic backgrounding of any references to internal lines of division within the Hindu community. Through a comparison with earlier textbooks, it sheds light on the contested nature of history writing in India, especially in terms of nation building and identity
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- Author
- Lars Tore Flåten
- Publisher
- Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781317208709
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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