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Indian Politics & TV: Hindu Nationalism

The document summarizes a book that analyzes how the broadcasting of a Hindu epic on state-run television in India violated long-standing rules of religious neutrality and sparked the largest political movement in post-independence India around the symbol of Lord Ram led by Hindu nationalists. This movement both embraced neoliberalism and globalization while also symbolizing a new form of politics that was both more inclusive and authoritarian. The book also examines how the larger historical context shaped and changed the character of Hindu nationalism in India.

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Indian Politics & TV: Hindu Nationalism

The document summarizes a book that analyzes how the broadcasting of a Hindu epic on state-run television in India violated long-standing rules of religious neutrality and sparked the largest political movement in post-independence India around the symbol of Lord Ram led by Hindu nationalists. This movement both embraced neoliberalism and globalization while also symbolizing a new form of politics that was both more inclusive and authoritarian. The book also examines how the larger historical context shaped and changed the character of Hindu nationalism in India.

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Politics after television : religious nationalism and the reshaping of the


Indian public / Arvind Rajagopal
Rajagopal, Arvind
Deskripsi Dokumen: http://lib.ui.ac.id/opac/ui/detail.jsp?id=20369598&lokasi=lokal
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The Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, the Ramayan, to nationwide
audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political
campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists. The
complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses
this extraordinary series of events. While audiences may have thought they were harking back to an epic
golden age, Hindu nationalist leaders were embracing the prospects of neoliberalism and globalisation.
Television was the device that hinged these movements together, symbolising the new possibilities of
politics, at once more inclusive and authoritarian. Simultaneously, this study examines how the larger
historical context was woven into and changed the character of Hindu nationalism.

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