Hindutva and Violence explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966), the most controversial Indian political thinker of the twentieth century and a key architect of Hindu nationalism. Examining his central claim that "Hindutva is not a word but a history, " the book argues that, for Savarkar, this history was not a total history, a complete history, or a narrative history. Rather, its purpose wa...
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