ISBN:
9780197567234
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Series Statement:
Modern South Asia Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
320.0820954
Keywords:
Bharatiya Janata Party
;
Hindu women-Political activity-India
;
Women-Political activity-India
;
Nationalism-India
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated, Rina Verma Williams places women's participation in religious politics in India in historical and comparative perspective through a focus on the most important Hindu nationalist political parties in modern Indian history: the All-India Hindu Mahasabha and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Williams compares three critical periods to show the increasing involvement of women in Hindu nationalist politics over time, and draws on significant new data sources to construct an unmatched before-and-after view of India's watershed 2014 elections. Given that the BJP is one of the most dynamic religious/ethno-nationalist parties in the world at present, Williams' account of how it incorporated masses of women into its coalition is essential reading for scholars and students interested not just in India, but in the relationship between gender and right-wing populist politics globally.
Abstract:
Cover -- Series -- Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women, Political Parties, and Indian Democracy -- 1. Of Histories and Numbers: Hindu Nationalist Political Parties and Women -- 2. Women Mobilized: Three Controversies, Three Prongs of Gendered Mobilization, 1985-1992 -- 3. Of Questions and Contexts: Feminist Responses, Scholarly Literatures, and Positionality -- 4. Women Marginalized: The All-India Hindu Mahasabha, 1915-1951 -- 5. Women Incorporated: The Contemporary BJP, 2013-2016 -- 6. Denouement-"The Condition of Its Women": Women's Political Participation and Indian Democracy -- Appendix A: Interviews -- Appendix B: 2014 Manifesto Items on Women, Coded -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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