Memories in the service of the Hindu nation - Kohli, Pranav (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Acknowledgements; Glossary; Prologue: The Linguistic Setting; Part I. The Past and the Present: Introduction; 1. Listening to Ancestors: Ethnography in a Milieu of Memory; Part II: Sacrifice and Suffering: The Purusharth of Refugees; 2. Stories of Purusharth; 3. A Story Half Told: The Moral and Political Claims of Purusharth; 4. Sacrifice and Hard Work: Martyrdom as Theodicy; 5. The Purusharth of Women; Part III. Remembrance and Healing: Reflections on the Post-Partition Context; 6. The Fractured Nomos; 7. Remembering Violence; 8. Remembering Partition in the Time of Fascism; 9. Healing, Victimhood and Ressentiment; Conclusion: Field Notes on Global Authoritarianism; Works Cited; Index.
Keywords: Anthropologie; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Demokratische Ideologien: Konservativismus; Mitte-rechts; Mündlich überlieferte Geschichte; Oral History; National liberation & independence; post-colonialism; Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit; Postkolonialismus; Nationalism; Nationalismus; Oral history; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; Physical anthropology; Religious & theocratic ideologies; Religiöse und theokratische Ideologien