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100	1		_aValiani, Arafaat A _962641
245	1	0	_aMilitant publics in India _bphysical culture and violence in the making of a modern polity
260			_aNew York _bPalgrave Macmillan _c2011
300			_axiv,266p. _bill., maps _c22 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aSection 1. Modalities of political mobilization -- Efficacies of political action : physical culture and the kinesthetic politics of Gandhian nationalism -- Preparatory training and disciplined Satyagraha in Bardoli (1928) -- Militant peacekeeping and subterfugic violence of the Quit India Movement (1942) -- section 2. Elaborating political itineraries -- Physical culture, civic activism, and Hindu nationalism in the city -- Physical training, ethical discipline, and creative violence : zones of self-mastery in the Hindu nationalist movement -- Epilogue -- Glossary.
520			_a"An historically informed ethnographic study of conceptions, arenas, and practices of physical training and militancy in the context of religious nationalism in twentieth- and twenty-first-century western India. Arafaat A. Valiani offers readers a telling glimpse and a rare insider perspective of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in the Indian state of Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out massive episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities. A close reading of Mohandas Gandhi's writing on popular mobilization and resistance and a detailed historical investigation of hitherto understudied episodes of satyagraha (Gandhi's celebrated concept of non-violence), this work illuminates debates on politics in South Asian history, anthropology, and sociology. Valiani interprets his own direct observation of Hindu nationalist pogroms in contemporary Gujarat, in addition to testimonies and ethnographic observations of the inner workings of the movement discovered by the author when he immersed himself as a "trainee" within it"--
600	1	0	_aGandhi, _cMahatma, _d1869-1948 _xPolitical and social views. _962642
650		0	_aNationalism _zIndia _zGujarat _xHistory. _962643
650		0	_aParticipation, Political _zIndia _zGujarat _xHistory. _962644
650		0	_aPhysical education and training _xPolitical aspects _zIndia _zGujarat _xHistory. _962645
650		0	_aViolence _xPolitical aspects _zIndia _zGujarat _xHistory. _962646
650		0	_aReligious militants _zIndia _zGujarat _xHistory. _962647
650		0	_aHinduism and politics _zIndia _zGujarat _xHistory. _962648
651		0	_aGujarat (India) _xPolitics and government _y20th century. _962649
651		0	_aGujarat (India) _xPolitics and government _y21st century. _962650
651		0	_aGujarat (India) _xSocial conditions. _962651
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