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The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India´s body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political movement and normalizing anti-minority violence. Adopting a critical ethnographic approach, this book identifies the poetics and politics of fear and violence engendered within Hindu nationalism.

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Introduction Hindu Nation under Seige ´The Muslim´ as the Threatening Other Awakening the Hindu Body and the Hindu Mind Awakening the Hindu Body Politic The Awakened Hindu Nation Ayodhya and Gujarat Hindu Nationalism and Politics of (In)Security

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"How is fear created, spread and updated? In this revelatory book, Dibyesh Anand takes us deep into the multi-stranded fear-engendering strategies employed by India´s contemporary Hindu nationalists. With a sharp feminist eye for exactly how both femininities and masculinities are wielded, he provides lessons for all of us concerned about the mobilization of ethnic hatreds and militarized nationalisms." - Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo´s War, Emma´s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War"Dibyesh Anand s book offers a sustained, innovative analysis of a central aspect of Hindu nationalist collective imaginings: the production of anti-Other fear. It is a must-read for anyone interested in right-wing social and political movements and in the local-to-transnational conflict in which they are engaged."

- Paola Bacchetta, professor, University of California, Berkeley

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DIBYESH ANAND is Reader in International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK.

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