Cleansing the Nation (India, The Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender)

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In Cleansing the Nation, Raka Shome explores the logics of governmentality of contemporary Hindu Nationalism in India by advancing the concept “Hindu Modern.” Analyzing a national cleanliness program and other development projects, Shome shows how the Hindu Modern—a form of national governmentality that disciplines and regulates individual subjects to create desirable “clean” citizens—inscribes Hindu nationalism in India. Focused on security, progress, and development while celebrating and protecting the figure of the upper caste Hindu woman, the Hindu Modern works toward a religious and casteist cleansing of the nation that rewrites Indian modernity as a purified and cleansed Hindu modernity. It shores up caste and religious inequalities around who is authentically Indian, reproducing historical violence and exclusions of caste, gender, and religious minorities, especially toward Muslims, Dalits, and Adivasis. By outlining how the Hindu Modern sutures Hindu-ness to the contemporary Indian national project of modernity, Shome helps further understand projects of national purification and cleanliness within global populist authoritarian movements.

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Author:
Raka Shome
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Duke University Press (November 11, 2025)
Imprint:
Duke University Press
Release Date:
November 11, 2025
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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9781478032755
ISBN-10:
1478032758
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15.68oz
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6" x 9"
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