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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valiani, Arafaat A. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
History of the Middle East.
Social Anthropology.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Sociology of Religion.
Ethnology.
Religion and sociology.
Social sciences.
Middle East > History.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (284 pages)
ISBN:9780230370630
DOI:10.1057/9780230370630