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Conventional wisdom holds that the defeat of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2009 election signaled that the middle class had been lured from the idea of India as a Hindu nation by the prospect of making money. Nanda, a science and religion writer based in the US, challenges that idea. Far from eroding the public presence and political power of religion, she argues, globalization and neoliberalism in India are bringing the state and the business world closer to Hinduism, the religion of the majority. Her perspectives are India and the global economy, the rush hour of the gods, the state-temple-corporate complex and the banality of Hindu nationalism, India@Superpower.com, and rethinking secularization. There is no index. First published in 2009 by Random House Publishers India Private Limited. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
