Hindutva

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Sangh's Nation-Building Project in the North East

As the northeast of India grapples with the spread of right-wing propaganda and the politics of Hindutva, 'The Greater India Experiment' offers a rich ethnographic account of the twists and…
▶31-Aug-2022
Richard Kamei
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Review

India that is not a Hindu Rashtra

What India needs now is not a ‘Bharat’ of ‘Indic Consciousness’, but a Union of States that will deliver gender equality, climate justice and social inclusion.
▶14-Jul-2022
Manuraj Shunmugasundaram

The Long March of Hindutva in Karnataka

Karnataka's recent spate of anti-minority policies must be seen as the logical development of social, cultural and political processes over several decades, which have created a Hindu samaj in…
▶02-Jun-2022
Shivasundar

How India’s Courts have Helped Escalate Hindutva Claims on Mosques

Rather than dismissing them under the Places of Worship Act, 1991, courts often allow petitions against mosques to fester, thus helping Hindutva politics.
▶25-May-2022
Umang Poddar

The Flawed Logic of the Karnataka Hijab Ban

The Karnataka hijab ban does not advance the autonomy of Muslim women. Rather, it narrows the avenues available for them to question and resist community norms.
▶23-May-2022
Faiza Rahman, John Sebastian

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

In Good Conscience

Instead of seeing the different worlds in India as invaluable resources from which we can learn and which we can draw on to build a better nation, our state sows suspicion among us about each other.
▶17-Feb-2022
Peter Ronald deSouza

Hindutva's Freelancers

Mimetic and aspirational groups, only loosely connected to the BJP and the RSS, are propelling the growth of Hindutva in north India. They draw impunity from communalised forms of caste assertion and…
▶16-Feb-2022
Vishal Singh Deo, Akram Akhtar Choudhary

A Nava Karnataka as Part of ‘New India’

Karnataka’s land reforms and creative backward-caste alliances in the 1970s and 1980s broke the dominance of landed castes and spurred innovative development programmes. Today, the state is forsaking…
▶31-Jan-2022
Janaki Nair, A R Vasavi

India: From the World’s Largest Democracy to an Ethnocracy

The principle that Hindus can rule and marginalise others has firmly established itself beyond the BJP and the RSS. This emerging ethnocracy in India draws on electoral victories and legislative…
▶17-Aug-2021
Indrajit Roy