Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood by Bhargava, Vanya Vaidehi

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780670094073)

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Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood by Bhargava, Vanya Vaidehi

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood

$40.00
Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood by Bhargava, Vanya Vaidehi

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai's Ideas of Nationhood

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is frequently associated with Bhagat Singh, who, by assassinating J.P. Saunders, avenged Rai's death, caused by a police lathi charge, and was hanged for it. Lajpat Rai is also remembered for his fervent opposition to British rule. In recent decades, however, historians have converged with the Hindu Right in rediscovering Lajpat Rai as an ideological ancestor of Hindutva. But what then explains Rai's wholehearted approval of Congress-Muslim League cooperation, and attempt to endow Hindus and Muslims with bonds of common belonging? Why did he reinterpret India's medieval history to highlight peaceful coexistence between Hindus and Muslims? Have our hasty conclusions about Lajpat Rai's nationalist thought concealed its complexities and distorted our understanding of nationalism in general?

Author: Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
ISBN-10: 0670094072
ISBN-13: 9780670094073
Publisher: Viking
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2024
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
By Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
By Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
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Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia. She completed her DPhil in history at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Global Intellectual History, Studies in Indian Politics and Religions. She has been a research fellow at the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ' Metamorphosis of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century' (ICAS: M.P.), New Delhi, India, and a senior research fellow with Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ' Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities', Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. Committed to engaging with the public, Bhargav has written for the Indian Express, The Hindu and The Wire. She tweets at @vanyavaidehi.

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