Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Photographs
Introduction
Nation, State, Religion, Public Sphere: Critical Considerations
Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Avishek Ray
1. The Clash of Religious Politics in India
Mark Juergensmeyer
2. Historicising Indigeneity in Northeastern India
Sanghamitra Misra
3. Journeying in the Vernacular: Hindi Travelogues and the Discovery of the Nation
Shobna Nijhawan
4. Race, Religion, and Enumeration: Configurations of Hindu Nationalism in India, 1910–1947
Sayori Ghoshal
5. The Public and the Person: Religion and Competing Legal Personhoods in Today’s India
Esha Meher
6. Racial Citizenship and the ‘Tribal Other’ in Northeast India
Roluahpuia
7. The Hindu Right and the Erasure of Kashmir
Anuradha Bhasin
8. Screening Hindutva: Religion and Television in India
Maribel Elliet Alvarado Becerril
9. State, Nation, Religion Revisiting the Cow Protection Discourse: Gender, Caste and Labour at a North Indian Gaushala
Ridhima Sharma
10. Gender and Hindutva: A Study of Jnana Prabodhini Women
Swati Dyahadroy
11. The Nation and the Hero
Manjima Chatterjee
12. ‘Desh ka sawaal hai’: Shah Rukh Khan, the ‘Global Indian’ and the Problematics of Minority Citizenship in Contemporary India
Sreya Mitra
13. ‘Religious Mentality’ and the Coming of a Nation: The Birla Mandir in New Delhi
Anne Hartig
14. Guru-led Faith Movements in India: The Case of The Art of Living Foundation
Himani Kapoor
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