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Peasant Populism and Hindu Imagery: A Case Study from Gadwal, Telangana State of South India

In: Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions

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  • Jessy K. Philip

    (Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University)

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This chapter examines the strength of ideologies of agrarian populism and religious populism among other backward caste groups in the state of Telangana to map the ideological ground for the penetration of the Hindu right-wing in the state. Scholars have pointed out that the current conjecture of hegemonic Hindu nationalism is yet another shifting form of Brahmanism, the socio-religious and ideological engine of caste, the matrix of domination in Indian society (Braj Ranjan Mani, The RSS Brahmantva Versus Dalit-Bahujans. Countercurrents.Org, April 26, 2016). Given the framework of electoral politics within which it functions, the ascendency of this project of domination of ‘upper caste’ elites requires the consent of the majority of the ‘lower’ castes or they need to be politically ‘incorporated’ (Chacko, Journal of Contemporary Asia 48 (4): 541–565, 2018).

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  • Jessy K. Philip, 2023. "Peasant Populism and Hindu Imagery: A Case Study from Gadwal, Telangana State of South India," Springer Books, in: Bhabani Shankar Nayak & Debadrita Chakraborty (ed.), Interdisciplinary Reflections on South Asian Transitions, chapter 0, pages 65-87, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-36686-4_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36686-4_5
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