Making India hindu and male: Cultural nationalism and the emergence of the ethnic citizen in contemporary India

Ethnicities

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 362-390

  Bannerji, Himani ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brahminical; Civil society; Communalism; Hegemony; Hindu fundamentalism; Patriarchy; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748058870     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796806068325     Document Type: Article

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