Hindutva as Political Monotheism

In Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt''s notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, Basu demonstrates how Western and In...