CONTENTS:
Preface and Acknowledgements;
I Introduction: The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism;
Two stories;
Culture and violence: In the light of Gujarat;
The ordering of difference;
Writing an ethnography of fascism;
Hindutva as symbolic capital;
II Mapping the Enemy;
“The significant past”;
Culture and difference in the nineteenth century;
Conquest and conversion;
Tolerance, Hindu and Muslim;
“Muslim separatism”;
III Administrative and Discursive Hindus;
A brief history of Hindu nationalism;
Street-fighters and patriots;
“A well-disciplined counter-revolutionary elite”;
“National thrust to ancient customs”;
IV Communities and Power;
The Scream of Reich;
Banswara;
Beawar;
Seva Bharati: “Giving culture” to the urban poor;
Mohalla Khatikan;
RSS women;
Postscript from Gujarat;
V Violence as Ritual;
Stories;
Suspect community;
The judicial inquiry;
Invisible violence;
The other point of view;
Appendices;
Election results;
Population by religion;
Maps;
VHP-RSS materials;
Bibliography.