The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India by Thomas Blom Hansen

The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India

Thomas Blom Hansen

304 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

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The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. ...

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