An essential guide on the contemporary rise of Hindu nationalism, a bulkwark against the cultural, economic and political elites whose prejudice and intolerance of populism at large - and especially the rise of Narendra Modi, the BJP, the RSS, and a strident new India - have been critical to sparking the incredible rise of a movement by ordinary Hindu men and women to interprete one of the oldest civilizations in the universe.

Dutt explains the populist moment of Hindutva and outlines its positive, world-changing qualities. With incisive moral clarity, he encourages the reader to think afresh about the promise of a new Indian future and why self-preservation of an age old culture and civilizational can be defensive instead of an offensiveforce of nature.