Hindu Rashtra and Bollywood: A New Front in the Battle for Cultural Hegemony
This paper examines the weaponization by Hindu right-wing politics of the suicide of a young Hindi film actor in September 2020. It argues that his death was invoked in particular ways to sharpen the attack on the Bombay film industry as part of the larger concerted move by the RSS to control and pu...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2020-11-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/6846 |