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The Public Hindu Pilgrimage

Pilgrimages are now more than mere religious acts: they are vast moving spectacles where scale becomes proof of sanctity. The call to become part of a moment eternal yet fleeting draws in devotees to…

▶17-Apr-2025

Amitanshu Verma

Book Review

How Hinduism Dealt with British Colonialism

‘Manu Pillai has the skill to pull arguments, hypotheses, theories, & anecdotes from a number of vast & varied sources. He then arranges them seamlessly in a composite narrative that reminds…

▶03-Feb-2025

Arshia Sattar

Renaming Caste, Retaining Privilege

Attempts to 'invisibilise' caste through definitional alterations – whether in terms of an organic community or of a cultural community – are enmeshed in long-range socioeconomic…

▶15-Jun-2024

Ankur Barua, Vishal Vasanthakumar

Hindu Spiritualism for a Neoliberal Age

The rise of tele-gurus signals a Hindu spirituality that resonates with the language of global capitalism, political Hindutva, and cultural consumption.

▶04-May-2022

Surya Prakash Upadhyay

Essay

Dharma and Caste in the Mahabharata

The Mahabharata is peopled by the ‘higher’ castes but there are important personages from the ‘lower’ castes whose presence gives a radical salience to ‘dharma’ as set out in the epic, to the point…

▶01-Feb-2021

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Review Article

Book Review

A Prehistory of Religious Modernity

A comparative study of the Brahmo Samaj and the Swaminarayanis, two sects seen as polar opposites, raises questions on both the superiority of the Hindu reform project during the colonial period and…

▶19-Nov-2020

Tanika Sarkar

Syncretic Culture of the Brahma Kshatriyas of Hyderabad

A photo essay on the Brahma Kshatriyas of Hyderabad, whose association with the Mughal and the Nizam’s administration produced a unique syncretic culture.

▶04-Sep-2020

Hema Malini