Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; Politics, Nationalism & Religion in Modern India; Performative Nation-building: Religious Rituals in Indian Nationalism; Beginnings of Performative Nation-building: Gandhis Method of Political Communication; Political Rituals of Purity in Colonial India; Religion as a Strategy of Mobilization in Democratic India; Transformations of the Public Sphere: Religion, Politics & Globalization; Terrorism & Religious Violence in South Asia: The Performative Politics of Fear; Spectacular Politics, Power & Constructed Consensus: Some Conclusions; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Clemens Six is Assisstant Professor at the Department of History, University of Berne, Switzerland.