Fascism in India
race, caste, and hindutva
$72.79
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2025
Summary
Fascism in India: A Revisionist Account
A revisionist account arguing that Indian nationalism served as a laboratory for fascist ideas that continue to animate the Hindutva political movement of today.
Fascism swept the world in the 1920s and 1930s, but not only because of the seductive rhetoric of Mussolini, Hitler, and their collaborators. In India as well, a distinctive brand of fascist thought emerged-influenced by Euro-American ideologies but also depar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674299436 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0674299434 |
| Author: | Luna Sabastian |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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Exceedingly few scholars have written about Savarkar and other Hindutva thinkers without glorifying or vilifying them. Luna Sabastian has done not just that but offered the key to understanding their philosophy and politics. This is a critical masterpiece. – Mithu Sanyal, author of IdentittiAn exceptional study of Indian debates about and identifications with fascism in colonial times, as well as their resonances today. This is as much a work of Indian as of global intellectual history. – Faisal Devji, author of Muslim Zion
About The Author
Luna Sabastian
Luna Sabastian is Assistant Professor in History at Northeastern University London.
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