Hindutva, OBCs, and Koli selfhood in western and central India
This paper describes how cultivator caste Kolis, who are the largest electoral bloc in Gujarat, India’s flagship state of Hindu chauvinism, navigate, circumvent, and are constituted by the intensification of Hindu chauvinism in the state’s borderland districts dominated by subordinated social groups...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Critical Asian studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 493-515 |
| Further subjects: | B
Political behavior
B Social behavior B Ideology B Adivasis B Effect B Mass media B India |
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| Summary: | This paper describes how cultivator caste Kolis, who are the largest electoral bloc in Gujarat, India’s flagship state of Hindu chauvinism, navigate, circumvent, and are constituted by the intensification of Hindu chauvinism in the state’s borderland districts dominated by subordinated social groups. Once the centerpiece of a secular political coalition in Gujarat, the personhood of Kolis at the intersection of the Aravali hills and Malwa plateau, a window onto rural central- and western India, has been constructed in complex ways since 2014. Mass-mediated media narratives potentiate Brahminical hegemony, the temple-industrial complex produces affective potentialities with caste Hinduism, and the politics of cow protection promotes new relationalities with bovines. However, this identity formation is fraught with slippages and reveals the always open possibilities of oppositional subjectivities. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA) |
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| ISSN: | 1472-6033 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical Asian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2023.2283003 |