TY - BOOK AU - Longkumer,Arkotong TI - The greater India experiment: Hindutva and the northeast T2 - South Asia in motion SN - 9781503613461 AV - DS482.8.L66 2021 16158 U1 - 320.55 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - Sangh Parivar KW - Hindutva KW - India, Northeastern KW - Hinduism and politics KW - Nationalism KW - Hinduism KW - Relations KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index; Arboreal nation -- The northeast and time's relentless melt -- Hindutva worldings : whose way of life? -- Prophecy and the Hindu state -- "Christian Hindu" and nationalizing Hindutva -- Rani Gaidinliu : a semiotic challenge to the nation state -- Citizenship, elections, and the BJP -- Epilogue : Hindutva becoming and the greater India experiment N2 - "With unheard of access to the Sangh Parivar (a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right), The Greater India Experiment explores the ideologies at play in this notorious group, documenting their quotidian activities. Longkumer argues that it is here that we truly see the full picture of the Sangh movement, not through the politicized lens of high-profile campaigns or activities, but through the gradual process of influencing social and cultural politics, and the eventual entanglement of the Hindu Right in the everyday politics of the region"-- ER -