Over the past century, Hindu nationalist and women’s movements set out to transform India, with very different results. This book follows both from the colonial period to the present. It shows that they used the same tools: grassroots outreach, electoral politics, communications, and fundraising. I argue that ideology does not explain their different fortunes. What mattered were outside events, the strategic choices activists made with limited information, and the political economy of transnational networks.
Details
- Publisher: Routledge, Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
- Published: 2016, 174 pages
- ISBN: 978-1-138-85112-2 (hardback); also in paperback and ebook
- Buy: Routledge
- Reviewed in: Contemporary South Asia 27(3), 2019; Politics, Religion & Ideology 20(3), 2019; Arc (McGill)
- Award: Williamson Prize for Best Social Science Book, Lehigh University (2016)
