Hindutva or Hind Swaraj
Book Details
Author(s)U. R. Ananthamurthy
PublisherHarper Collins India
ISBN / ASIN9351775704
ISBN-139789351775706
AvailabilityUsually dispatched within 24 hours
Sales Rank5,643
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
The very last work of Jnanpith award winner and preeminent writer U.R. Ananthamurthy is a timely reading of, and creative response to, the rise of Hindutva nationalism in India. Juxtaposing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder V.D. Savarkar's idea of Hindutva with M.K. Gandhi's concept of Hind Swaraj, the book examines two directions that were open to India at the time of Independence. Born out of a meditation of the idea of the nation state and nationalism, and what the new power structures and centres mean for the very idea of India, the essay uses shifting tones and styles to make a deep, elegant and heartfelt point about the human cost of radicalization.
