Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self (Oxford India Collection)

by Ashis Nandy (Author), ShailMayaram (Author), ShikhaTrivedy (Author), Achyut Yagnik (Author)

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  1998

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  This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led up to and followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the end-product of a century's effort to convert Hindus into a 'proper' modern nation. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the culture of communal conflict, the nature of organized mass violence, and the political psychology of Hindu nationalism.