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In this article I describe a south Indian social movement, headed by a Hindu preceptor. This movement relied on elite women members and on feminine religious idioms to solicit upper‐caste consent to Hindu nationalism; with that ideology, it naturalized caste inequalities and attempted to broker alliances between urban elites and the poor. The movement represented upper‐caste contestation for hegemonic power, but failed because of indeterminacies attached to its “education of consent” and anti‐Brahman political sentiment.
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