New book by Raka Shome
Cleansing the Nation: India, the Hindu Modern and Mediations of Gender (Duke University Press 2025)
releasing November 11, 2025. Available now for order via amazon, duke upress website.
This book will be of interest to scholars trying to understand contemporary (authoritarian) forms of nationalism, media and their entanglements with gender. Also of interest to scholars focused on Hindu nationalism and a feminist analysis of nationalism.
Link: Cleansing the Nation: India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender
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| India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender Book Pages: 304 Illustrations: 42 illustrations Release Date: November 11, 2025 In Cleansing the Nation, Raka Shome explores the logics of governmentality of contemporary Hindu nationalism in India by advancing the concept of the "Hindu modern." |
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Raka Shome
Professor and Harron Family Endowed Chair of Communication
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
PA
United States
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