From Anustup Basu, Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Duke, 2020)
Basu offers a genealogical study of right-wing Hindu nationalism, demonstrating how a modernization project subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic cults...
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