Hole, B;
(2013)
A Many-Cornered Thing: The Role of Heritage in Indian Nation-Building.
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
, 7
(2)
1 - 27.
10.1080/17502977.2012.714244.
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Abstract
India is a large and extremely diverse multination state that is constantly faced with the challenge of maintaining its unity. In the past two decades the Hindu nationalist movement has become a significant factor in Indian politics, and has systematically leveraged heritage to create communal tensions. This has resulted in short-term political gain, but is also tied to longer-term goals of establishing a homogenously Hindu state in South Asia. This article argues that instead of being in decline, this movement is actually progressively expanding, and that the case of Ayodhya is only one part of a much larger programme in which heritage academics play a significant role, and that their collective actions will be pivotal to the future stability of the country.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Many-Cornered Thing: The Role of Heritage in Indian Nation-Building |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17502977.2012.714244 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2012.714244 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
| Keywords: | India, nationalism, Hindutva, heritage, archaeology |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1386555 |
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