Specifications
- Language:ENGLISH
- Format: PAPERBACK
- Pages: 204 pages
- ISBN-13: 9788197349461
- Item Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 21.5 cm x 14 cm x 1.9 cm
- Genre: Politics
Description
Being Hindu adopts a longue durée view of history and attempts to contextualize the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its progenitor, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), as political phenomena by examining certain medieval state structures and instances of advocacy and popular mobilization i
Saumya Dey
Saumya Dey is a professor of history at Rishihood University, Haryana. He did his PhD at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, Delhi. His chief research interests are cultural and intellectual history and the politics of colonial India. His prior books are Becoming Hindus and Muslims: Reading the Cultural Encounter in Bengal, 1342–1905 (Munshiram Manoharlal, 2015), The Cultural Landscape of Hindutva and Other Essays: Historical Legitimacy of an Idea (Shubhi Publications, 2019 [Revised Edition, 2023]), Narrativizing Bharatvarsa and Other Essays (Shubhi Publications, 2021 [Revised Edition, 202
