Such easy left and right dichotomy is hazardous when applying to India. If leftish government was there in India iy performed poorly. It was leftish at the top ideologically, crooked everywhere, and a failure in what it attempted to do. It's rightward shift economically has been tested by the previous electorate by getting rid of
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:33 PM, raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Porcelaenshaven 24, 3 DK-2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +45 3815 2572 Fax: +45 3815 2500 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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