Holy Science

The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism

• Author(s): Banu Subramaniam,
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Pages: 290
• ISBN_10: 0295745592
  ISBN_13: 9780295745596
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / General , History / Asia / South / General , POLITICAL SCIENCE / General , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Political Science / World / Asian , Political Science / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy , Religion / Hinduism / General , Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects ,

Description:... "Subramaniam examines how science and religion have come together to propel a vision of the modern Indian nation, and in particular, a Hindu nationalist vision of India. Five illustrative cases of bionationalism animate this book: Hindu nationalist narratives of scientific development, colonial law and sexual politics in India, surrogacy and women's roles, the politics of caste and race in the language of genes and genomics, and the alignment of environmental scientists and religious activists. Subramaniam demonstrates that the politics of gender, race, class, caste, sexuality, and indigeneity are deeply implicated in the projects and narratives of the nation. At the same time, she seeks spaces of possibility and new narratives for planetary salvation that defy binary logics, incorporating science and religion, human and nonhuman, and nature and culture"--