Weaponizing Language: Legislating a Hindu India
Author:   Ila Nagar (The Ohio State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009480291


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 August 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Weaponizing Language: Legislating a Hindu India


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Author:   Ila Nagar (The Ohio State University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009480291


ISBN 10:   1009480294
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 August 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Author's Notes; Political Parties, Alliances, and Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Cartographies of Language and Citizenship; 2. Where God Was Born: Ramajanmbhoomi and Babri Masjid; 3. From Shah Bano to Sharaya Bano: Indian Muslim Women as Subjects of Rights; 4. Gifts that Keep on Giving: Kashmir, Article 370, and Pakistan; 5. Who Is a Citizen of India? Citizenship Amendment Act, Minorities, and Termites; Postscript; Appendix; Glossary; References.

Reviews

'Nagar's lucid and compassionate volume introduces 'linguistic trickery' as a powerful analytic for understanding the subtle yet consequential maneuvers that so often characterize political discourse. Encompassing a range of rhetorical strategies, the concept reveals how India's Hindu right has weaponized language to construct threatening images of Indian Muslims-paving the way for the tragedies of the nation's ethnonational present.' Janet McIntosh, Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University


Author Information

Ila Nagar is Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. Her recent publications include Being Janana: Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2019). She studies how language represents familiar and unfamiliar social hierarchies.

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