Awakening Bharat Mata by Swapan Dasgupta

Ravish Tiwari, writing for The Indian Express, observed that the book teases out different strands of Hindu cultural nationalist belief. In the end of review, Raj suggests to give the book to liberal historian Ramachandra Guha when he rues about absence of India's conservative intellectuals. Raj praised the essays selected by Dasgupta but expected the author's own analysis on its relevance in today's times. Besides tracking the rise and success of Hindutva politics, the book also examines its faultlines. According to Raj, in India's left liberal dominated discourse, BJP and Hindutva politics have been given distaste in intellectual and academic circles. Rishi Raj, reviewing for the Financial Express, called the book a 'timely book'. Majumdar, Jadunath Sarkar, Veer Savarkar, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Sardar Patel, Sita Ram Goel, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Ramananda Chatterjee, Nirad C.

The latter section of the book contains essays written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sister Nivedita, Sri Aurobindo, R. The book then provides a collection of essays which are divided into three categories: The Motherland and Nation Building, History, and Fault Lines. Summary ĭasgupta wrote the first three chapters of the book, which are: The Political context Motherland, Religion and Community Politics and the Hindu Narrative. The book was published by Penguin Random House and contains 440 pages. Publication Īwakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right is a 2019 literary collection by a Bharatiya Janata Party politician Rajya Sabha and Padma Bhushan award recipient Swapan Dasgupta. According to the author, the book is not about Hindu nationalism as a power, but as a social and political movement. Hindu nationalism is one of the predominant political beliefs prevalent in India. The book is about the rise and beliefs of right-wing politics in India.

Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right is a literary collection by Swapan Dasgupta, published by Penguin Random House in 2019.

Awakening Bharat Mata by Swapan Dasgupta