Namaste Sharon

Hindutva and Sharonism under US Hegemony

Vijay Prashad

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9788187496359

LeftWord Books, New Delhi, 2003

INR 75.00

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n September 2003, Ariel Sharon became the firstIsraeli Prime Minister to step on Indian soil. Hindutva and Sharonism embracedeach other, and these two Asian right-wing ideologies hoped to form some sort ofentente against ???Islamic terrorism??? with the blessings of George W. Bush???sevangelical imperialism. Namaste Sharon, said India???s Prime Minister, but whatdoes the rest of the country say? In Namaste Sharon , politicalcommentator Vajay Prasad unmasks the nefarious agenda whereby the evangelicalimperialism of the Bush administration , the predatory agenda of the Sharonitesand the vainglory of Hindutva come together.

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashadis director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor at LeftWord Books, and chief correspondent for Globetrotter Independent Media Institute. He is the author of forty books, including Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community, Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third
World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. The Darker Nations won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize. He lives in Santiago, Chile.