Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright Statement -- PART 1: INTRODUCTION: THE INVENTION OF AN ETHNIC NATIONALISM -- Introduction: The Invention of an Ethnic Nationalism -- An Ideological Reaction to the Other: From Reform to Revivalism in the Nineteenth Century -- The Political Turn: The Hindu Sabhas Movement -- The Hindu Sangathan Movement: Hindu Nationalism Crystallizes -- The Maharashtrian Crucible of Hindu Nationalism -- The Sangh Parivar Takes Shape -- Hindu Nationalism and Political Strategy -- PART 2: THE MAKING AND RESHAPING OF HINDU NATIONALIST IDEOLOGY -- 1 Swami Dayananda Saraswati -- Two Extracts from The Light of Truth (Satyarth Prakash) -- 2 R.B. Lal Chand -- Extract from Self-Abnegation in Politics -- 3 Har Bilas Sarda -- Two Chapters from Hindu Superiority: An Attempt to Determine the Position of the Hindu Race in the Scale of Nations -- 4 Madan Mohan Malaviya and Lala Lajpat Rai -- Presidential Addresses at Two Hindu Mahasabha Annual Meetings -- 5 Swami Shraddhananda -- Extract from Hindu Sangathan: Saviour of the Dying Race -- 6 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar -- Extract from Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? -- 7 M.S. Golwalkar -- Extracts from We or Our Nationhood Defined -- Extracts from Bunch of Thoughts -- 8 Deendayal Upadhyaya -- Two Extracts from Integral Humanism -- 9 Balraj Madhok -- Extracts from Indianization? What, Why and How -- PART 3: HINDU NATIONALIST ISSUES -- 10 The RSS and Politics -- Extract from K.R. Malkani, The RSS Story -- Extract from Sri Balasaheb Deoras Answers Questions -- L.K. Advani's Concluding Statement at the National Executive Meeting of the BJP, 18 September 2005 -- 11 Jammu & Kashmir -- Extract of a Speech by Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, in the Lok Sabha, on 7 August 1952 -- Preface to BJP on Kashmir -- 12 The National Language.

Extracts from Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Party Documents Vol. 5: Resolutions on Education, etc. and Party Affairs -- 13 Conversion and the Arithmetic of Religious Communities -- Lala Lajpat Rai on Dalits and Conversions -- Extract from Raj Eshwar, Paravartan (Back to Hinduism): Why and How -- 14 Reservation and Social Justice -- Extract from RSS Resolves: Full Text of Resolutions from 1950 to 1983 -- Extracts from 'BJP Election Manifesto', 1991 Lok Sabha Elections -- Extract from 'BJP Election Manifesto', 1996 Lok Sabha Elections -- Extract from 'BJP Election Manifesto', 1998 Lok Sabha Elections -- Extract from 'NDA Election Manifesto', 1999 Lok Sabha Elections -- Extract from 'NDA Election Manifesto', 2004 Lok Sabha Elections -- 15 Education -- Extracts from Murli Manohar Joshi, 'Reorienting Education' -- 16 Ayodhya, the Babri Masjid, and the Ramjanmabhumi Dispute -- Extract from an Interview of L.K. Advani -- Extract from L.K. Advani, 'The Ayodhya Movement' -- 17 Defence -- Extract from Jaswant Singh, Defending India -- 18 Secularism -- Extract from Atal Behari Vajpayee, 'The Bane of Pseudo-Secularism' -- Extract from Atal Behari Vajpayee, 'Secularism, the Indian Concept' -- 19 The Economy -- Extract from S. Gurumurthy, 'Swadeshi and Nationalism' -- Extract from Arun Shourie, 'This is India's Moment, But It's Only a Moment, Can We Grasp It?' -- 20 The Diaspora and Hindu Nationalism -- Documents on the California Textbooks Controversy -- Bibliography.