Peter Ronald deSouza
Peter Ronald deSouza
Peter Ronald deSouza is a Professor at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies. He has recently published In the Hall of Mirrors: Reflections on Indian Democracy, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2018.
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5 July 2021
The day Fr. Stan Swamy died marked a collective national failure; we are all guilty of his death, either by omission or by commission. We now need symbolic as well as bold gestures to reclaim the moral ground we ceded on 5 July 2021.
The Intrinsic Limits of Hindutva as an Ideology of the Indian State
The BJP has built an electoral juggernaut but the mishandling of the pandemic has shown that Hindutva as an ideology is a handicap in the running of a modern state. The challenge to the BJP will come at the state-level & will be rooted in a cultural pushback.
‘Transgression’: Explaining contemporary India
Complex societal transformations can be assessed through their changing normative structures. One can analyse the different social domains in India by focussing on the key concept of ‘transgression’ through an innovative analytical framework for India.
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