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{{Italic title}}'''''Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right''''' is a literary collection by [[Swapan Dasgupta]], published by [[Penguin Random House]] in 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/awakening-bharat-mata-a-book-that-sheds-light-on-the-rise-of-the-right/1643288/|title=Awakening Bharat Mata {{!}} A book that sheds light on the rise of the Right|date=2019-07-14|website=The Financial Express|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-16}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/articles-of-faith-awakening-bharat-mata-the-political-beliefs-of-the-indian-right-book-review-5827231/|title=Articles of Faith|date=2019-07-13|website=The Indian Express|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-16}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theweek.in/review/books/2019/06/10/Understanding-the-Indian-right.html|title=Understanding the Indian right|website=The Week|language=en|access-date=2020-03-16}}</ref> The book is about the rise and beliefs of [[Conservatism in India|right-wing politics in India]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bhattacharya|first=A. K.|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/the-roots-of-hindu-nationalism-119070200064_1.html|title=The roots of Hindu nationalism|date=2019-07-02|work=Business Standard India|access-date=2020-03-16}}</ref>

== Background ==
[[Hindu nationalism]] is one of the predominant political beliefs prevalent in India. According to the author, the book is not about Hindu nationalism as a power, but as a social and political movement.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dasgupta|first=Swapan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gqXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12&dq=this+book+is+not+about+HIndu+nationalism+in+POwer+but+as+as+social+and+political+movement#v=onepage&q=this%20book%20is%20not%20about%20HIndu%20nationalism%20in%20POwer%20but%20as%20as%20social%20and%20political%20movement&f=false|title=Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right|date=2019-05-25|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-530-1|pages=xv|language=en}}</ref>

== Publication ==
''Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right'' is a 2019 literary collection by a [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] politician [[Rajya Sabha]] and [[Padma Bhushan]] award recipient [[Swapan Dasgupta]]. The book was published by [[Penguin Random House]] and contains 440 pages.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dasgupta|first=Swapan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gqXDwAAQBAJ|title=Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right|date=2019-05-25|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-530-1|language=en}}</ref>

== Summary ==
Dasgupta wrote the first three chapters of the book, which are: ''The Political context; Motherland, Religion and Community; Politics and the Hindu Narrative.'' The book then provides a collection of essays which are divided into three categories: ''The Motherland and Nation Building, History, and Fault Lines.''

The latter section of the book contains essays written by [[Bankim Chandra Chatterjee]], [[Sister Nivedita]], [[Sri Aurobindo]], [[R. C. Majumdar]], [[Jadunath Sarkar]], [[Savarkar|Veer Savarkar]], [[Mahadev Govind Ranade]], [[Sardar Patel]], [[Sita Ram Goel]], [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]], [[Ramananda Chatterjee]], [[Nirad C. Chaudhuri]], [[L. K. Advani]], [[Girilal Jain]] and [[S. Gurumurthy]].

== Reception ==
Rishi Raj, reviewing for the [[Financial Express (India)|''Financial Express'']], called the book a "timely book".<ref name=":0" /> According to Raj, in India's [[left liberal]] dominated discourse, BJP and [[Hindutva]] politics have been given distaste in intellectual and academic circles.<ref name=":0" /> Besides tracking the rise and success of Hindutva politics, the book also examines its faultlines.<ref name=":0" /> Raj praised the essays selected by Dasgupta but expected the author's own analysis on its relevance in today's times.<ref name=":0" /> In the end of review, Raj suggests to give the book to liberal historian [[Ramachandra Guha]] when he rues about absence of India's conservative intellectuals.<ref name=":0" />

Ravish Tiwari, writing for ''[[The Indian Express]]'', observed that the book teases out different strands of Hindu cultural nationalist belief.<ref name=":1" /> According to him, the book's introductory chapters form the context of the book but specific context is lacking on why the essays were chosen.<ref name=":1" /> For ''[[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]]'', Vijaya Pushkarna wrote that book is an attempt to identify some of the ideas, attitudes and beliefs of [[conservatism in India]].<ref name=":2" /> "Anecdotes and stories in the book," wrote Pushkarna, "are interesting to read."<ref name=":2" /> She observed that Dasgupta's chapters in the book are more about [[Narendra Modi]] and his contributions to economic intellect and ideas for the [[BJP]].<ref name=":2" />

== References ==
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