Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Orthography
About the Companion Website
1. Introduction. Standing on Narad's Mat: Nationalism and
Hindu Performance in Western India
PART I: Marathi Kirtan and Modernity Before 1947
2. Naradiya Kirtan for "Modern Educated People"
3. Rashtriya Kirtan: Resisting Modernity, Devotionalizing Nationalism
PART II: Nationalist Kirtan Within and Beyond the Post-Colonial State
4. "From 'Home Rule' to 'Good Rule'": Nationalism and Kirtan After Independence
5. The Re-Institutionalization of Marathi Kirtan: Hindutva Networks and Gender
PART III: Performing a Hindu Nation
6. Performance, Genre, and Politics in Rashtriya Kirtan
7: Sudhatai Dhamankar: Embedded Embodiments
8. Yogeshwar Upasani: The Collision of Genres and Collusion of Participants...
9. Conclusion
References
Glossary

About the Author

Anna Schultz earned the Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Illinois. She is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Stanford University, where she works on Marathi kirtan, Indo-Caribbean music, paraliturgical Indian Jewish music, and country/bluegrass music.

Reviews

"Anna Schultz has given us a rich and vibrant ethnomusicological study of an Indian performance art that has received little academic attention outside, or inside, India Scholars of Indian religion, politics, and political anthropology will find Schultz's book a vital text. Ethnomusicologists and others interested in theorizing the relationship between politics and performance will find Schultz's work path-breaking. Anyone attracted to lyrical, sharp
ethnography of any part of the world will find Singing a Hindu Nation an enormously rewarding and enduring study."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"This remarkable and impressive book, which ably brings together such diverse disciplines as religious studies, political science, anthropology, history, and ethnomusicology, marks an important and distinctive contribution to scholarly discourse on the difficult topic of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism." --Jeffery Long, Elizabethtown College, American Political Science Association
"Schultz's theorization of nationalism is far more nuanced than any that has so far been proposed for Indian classical music. It is historically engaged, ethnographically rich, theoretically sophisticated, and clearly born out of a rich personal history within the region. Schultz provides a window into a musical world that many had no idea existed, but that has, since its inception, provided a powerful locus for the formation of Hindu nationalism at the
regional level. For these reasons, it will serve as a model of scholarship across many fields of inquiry."--Justin Scarimbolo, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Elegantly crafted, Singing a Hindu Nation is a historically grounded ethnography of the kirtan genre of singing and storytelling in Maharashtra, India. Exploring a spectrum of devotional performances, Schultz demonstrates the potency of kirtan in animating traditional aesthetic categories and manipulating public opinion. This timely work not only reveals a lesser known facet of Hindu nationalism, it contributes significantly to the
growing body of scholarship delineating music's critical role in a variety of Indian modernist projects." --Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University, author of Theorizing the Local: Music
Practice and Experience in South Asia and Beyond (OUP, 2009)
"Singing a Hindu Nation is by far one of the best books on nationalism and the arts in modern India. Grounded in impeccable ethnographic detail, this fresh and wholly original work illustrates the affective power of Marathi kirtan by foregrounding its relationship to the state, radicalized forms of religion, and the historical imagination. Schultz's pathfinding work is a 'must read' for anyone interested in the cultural history of modern
India." --Davesh Soneji, Associate Professor of South Asian Religions, McGill University
"Historically engaged, ethnographically rich, theoretically sophisticated, and clearly born out of a rich personal history within the region. Schultz provides a window into a musical world that many had no idea existed, but that has, since its inception, provided a powerful locus for the formation of Hindu nationalism at the regional level." --Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association