Bhagavad Gita and Hindu modes of capitalist accumulation in India

Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

doi:10.1108/sbr-09-2017-0071

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“…It rationalizes capitalistic virtues to promote the growth of capitalism in Indian society and co-opts the tenets of resistance movements within its project. This process is facilitated by the Hindu right-wing forces that derive their social legitimacy and philosophical justification from the Hindu religion (Nayak, 2018a(Nayak, , 2018b.…”

Section: Hinduization Territorialization and The Changing Notion Of mentioning

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“…It is clear, however, that in some contexts NGOs and CSOs function as the ideological state apparatuses of capitalism (Althusser, 1971), creating a foundation of conservative social and economic order that is concomitant with capitalism. As stated above, in the Indian context the conservative social order is a Hindutva social order based on a Hindu caste society (Nayak, 2018b).…”

Section: Growth Of Ngos and Their Impact On Social Development And Idmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Like the theory of Karma , neoliberal development thinkers frame the issues of inequality, poverty, marginalization and underdevelopment as products of state failure, the inefficiency of the state and market failure. As in Hindu theology, the advocates of the neoliberal market talk about the solution of these problems as very much long-term goals, just as Hinduism frames Nirvana/Moksa ; there is no time limit to achieve it (Nayak, 2018b).…”

Section: Tribal Identity In Postcolonial Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Borkenau has it, ‘The construction of norms for the regulation of social life and individual behaviour is a compelling need of capitalism, so long as it wishes to proclaim itself as a universal form of social life’ (Borkenau, 1971: 96, as cited in Grossman, 2006: 201). In India, Hindus constitute 85% of the population, and thus the Hindu religion provides a significant base with which to control the labour power of the masses (Nayak, 2018b).…”

Section: Tribal Identity In Postcolonial Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The process of embeddedness creates a totality of culture, or cultural hegemony, in the society. In India, neoliberalism uses the Hindu religion and culture and majoritarianism as tools to pursue such an agenda (Nayak, 2018a(Nayak, , 2018b. 12.…”

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Colonial World of Postcolonial Historians: Reification, Theoreticism, and the Neoliberal Reinvention of Tribal Identity in India

Nayak

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This article develops a critical analysis of the colonial world of the postcolonial historians whose works inadvertently contribute to the process of reconstituting the colonial construction of tribal identities in neoliberal India. The monolithic and colonial construction of tribal identities in postcolonial India reinforces and preserves tribal identities along the lines of the colonial methods of identity formation based on territorialization. The article highlights the problematic features of the territorialization and deterritorialization of tribal identities and their reconstitution. Territorial-based identity formation is now being used and sustained by the neoliberal political and economic ruling and non-ruling elites in order to exploit tribal communities. The existence of upper-caste and class-based Hindu social order is concomitant with a social hierarchy based on the exploitation of tribal communities in India. This article locates the colonial and neoliberal capitalist logic of identity formation that serves elites, and helps to advance the neoliberal political-economic project of the Hindu right. A postmodern logic of identity formation facilitates the expansion of the neoliberal capitalist economy with the process of Hinduization. It contributes to identity formations that divide the people on territorial grounds. The article is divided into four parts. The first outlines the philosophical basis of identity formation and its links with neoliberalism; the second deals with identity formation based on territory; part three documents the debates on tribal identity formation in postcolonial India; and the final part elucidates the capitalist logic inherent in territorial-based identity formations.

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