On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I heard a very interesting presentation by Meera Nanda last year on the new > religiosity in India. She said it was the yuppies who are the biggest > adherents now, embracing some weird New Agey version of Hinduism. That's not > from fear and other base instincts, but maybe some comfort in the midst of > an "all that's solid melts into air" class transformation? > That sounds right to me, especially among the emigrant yuppies. The most interesting outsider's perspective on the Indian right I have seen is Martha Nussbaum: http://www.law.yale.edu/news/5847.htm She attributes the Hindu nationalist's ideology to a psycho-analytic notion of "humiliated masculinity". It seems as plausible as any psycho-analytic theory can be. -raghu.
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