Pitra, Putra aur Dharmyudhha

Curated by Promona Sengupta

Is Hindu a Gender? Hindu Nationalism and The Gender Binary in India
Part 1

This two part documentary is a cutting exploration of the connections between Hindu nationalism, masculinity and gendered violence in India. The film is set against the backdrop of the 1992 demolition of the historic Babri Mosque by Hindu fundamentalist mobs, an act encouraged by the political campaigns of prominent Hindu Right Wing politician L.K.Advani. 30 years have passed since the release of this film, but the nexus of toxic masculinity, gendered violence and Hindu supremacy gets tighter by the day, becoming a defining factor in the shaping of contemporary Indian democracy. (PG)

Dr. Razak Khan is a Research Fellow in Global History at the Department of History,
Free University, Berlin. He is currently finishing his Habilitation project “Minor Cosmopolitanism: Islam, Urdu, and Emotional Integration in the Life and Writings of Syed Abid Husain (1896-1978).”