• ISBN13: 9789351503842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 284
• Original Price: INR 825.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 445 grams

<p class="ABOUTBOOKAI"><span>A comprehensive analysis on the rise, assertion and dominance of the New Hindu Right forces in civil society</span> <p class="ABOUTBOOKAI">From its forgettable electoral&nbsp;performance of 1984 to its historical&nbsp;victory in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata&nbsp;Party&rsquo;s (BJP) story has been fodder for&nbsp;many political and academic debates.&nbsp;In this book, the authors show how&nbsp;the Hindu Right uses security, both&nbsp;external and internal, as a strategy&nbsp;for political mobilisation and eventual&nbsp;electoral success. It further explains&nbsp;the organisational and ideological&nbsp;penetration of the Sangh Parivar into&nbsp;the civil domain through strategies&nbsp;of securitisation. Deriving data from&nbsp;original sources, writings of leaders&nbsp;and their autobiographies, speeches,&nbsp;government documents, reports,&nbsp;pamphlets and manifestos of various&nbsp;Hindutva organisations, the work&nbsp;follows the growth of the Hindu&nbsp;Right forces and its trajectory over&nbsp;the years, taking a close look into its&nbsp;philosophical settings and political&nbsp;strategies.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> The book assumes significance in&nbsp;light of the massive electoral success&nbsp;of BJP in the 2014 elections.