01265nam a22001337a 4500020001800000082002200018100002100040245006100061260004500122300001700167504003200184520082600216650008901042  a9781107149878  a320.540954bBAS-R  a Basu, Manisha    aRhetoric of hindu Indiab:language and urban nationalism  aNew DelhibOxford University Pressc2017  a xiii, 217p.  aIncludes Bibliography,Index  aThis book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. This ideology, the book assesses, aspires to be a pan-Indian, urban form that is home to the emerging, digitally enabled, technocratic middle classes of the nation. Through close analyses of the writings of a range of self-styled public intellectuals, from Arun Shourie and Swapan Dasgupta to Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi, this book maps this new avatar of Hindutva. Finally, in analyzing the language of metropolitan Hindutva, it arrives at an emerging idea of India as part of what Amitav Ghosh has called a contemporary Anglophone empire. This is the first extended scholarly effort to theorize a politics of language in relation to the dangers of such an imperializing Hindutva.  aNationalism-Political aspectsvHinduism and politicsvPolitics and governmentzIndia