Militant Publics in India: Physical Culture and Violence in the Making of a Modern Polity

Valiani, A.

Offers readers a telling glimpse 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 Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-11-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230112575

DOI: 10.1057/9780230370630

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 266