Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy

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• ISBN 10: 019756724X
• ISBN 13: 9780197567241
• Author: Rina Verma Williams

In Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated, Rina Verma Williams places women’s participation in religious politics in India into historical and comparative perspective through a focus on the most important Hindu nationalist political parties in modern Indian history: the All-India Hindu Mahasabha (HMS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She compares three critical periods to show the increasing involvement of women in Hindu nationalist politics over time. In its formative years in the early 1900s, the HMS marginalized women; in the 1980s, the BJP began to mobilize them; and in the contemporary period, as the BJP returned to power in 2014, it has incorporated women into its structures and activities. Williams contends that the incorporation of women into Hindu nationalist politics has significantly advanced the BJP’s electoral success compared to prior periods when women were either marginalized or mobilized in more limited ways. For the BJP, women’s incorporation works to normalize religious nationalism in Indian democracy; however, incorporation has not been emancipatory for women, whose participation in BJP politics is still predicated on traditional gender ideologies that tether women to their social roles in the home and family.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. Of Histories and Numbers: Hindu Nationalist Political Parties and Women
Chapter 2. Women Mobilized: Three Controversies, Three Prongs of Gendered Mobilization, 1985-1992
Chapter 3. Of Questions and Contexts: Feminist Responses, Scholarly Literatures, and Positionality
Chapter 4. Women Marginalized: The All-India Hindu Mahasabha, 1915-1951
Chapter 5. Women Incorporated: The Contemporary BJP, 2013-2016
Chapter 6. Dénouement. “The Condition of Its Women”: Women’s Political Participation and Indian Democracy

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