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SUMMARY:Outrage\, hurt and ‘neo-Hindutva’: anti-M F Husain protests in
  India and beyond - Edward Anderson\, PhD Candidate\, Darwin College\, Uni
 versity of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:The art of M F Husain has been a locus of Hindu nationalist mo
 bilization since the mid-1990s. This paper considers the hostility that pl
 agued the twilight years of India’s most successful and prominent modern
  artist. Husain’s exhibitions in India were systematically picketed and 
 even vandalised. Hundreds of police complaints were filed against him. Cer
 tain Hindu groups claimed that his artworks – specifically those depicti
 ng Hindu goddesses – were obscene\, insulting\, and blasphemous. The sec
 ond half of this paper analyses an instance of anti-Husain activism outsid
 e India\, in London\, in 2006. Through this case study\, the role of perfo
 rmative tropes of outrage and offence in the public representation of Hind
 uism is explored. It is argued that a reconceptualization of diasporic Hin
 dutva is required. \n
LOCATION:S2 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd.
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