Rather than speak of the “right,” we in this concluding essay urge all to call these projects what they actually…
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
The forum on “Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right,” curated by Supriya Gandhi (Yale University) and edited by Mona Oraby (TIF editor and Howard University), examines the rise of far-right movements and actors through a global lens with Hindutva and the Hindu right at the center of this inquiry. As Gandhi states in her introductory essay to the forum, “these movements do not exist in silos but, rather, frequently feed into each other.” On the other hand, Gandhi also makes clear that differences between emerging forms of authoritarianism are significant to scholarly and public debate on this topic, suggesting that “the questions and problems examined here include asking how supremacist projects, such as Hindutva and white nationalism, may reinforce each other even as they also diverge.” The contributors to this forum urge scholars and the public to consider how far-right movements are born in local environs but also converge into a global phenomenon.
Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities
On August 4, 2022, in the run-up to India celebrating its seventy-fifth Independence Day, the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission (SRMD), a…
The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva
US Hindu nationalist groups capitalize on anti-racist discursive models, decolonial language, as well as the liberatory structures of Black and…
Sacred space and the (post)secular state
“There are some artifacts that are symbols of nations and states. One of these symbols is the Ayasofya,” said Turkish…
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
As India increasingly gets synonymized as Hindu, and academic-activist works interrogate Hindutva, we must investigate the pre- and post-9/11 impact…
Hindu fragility and the politics of mimicry in North America
By examining contemporary debates around caste in the United States, we illustrate how Hindu fragility—an expression of Hindu supremacist logics—is…
The pastor, the swarm, and the movement
A finer understanding of how the far right organizes is essential to avoiding inadequate comparisons to past experiences and devising…
Hindutva appropriations of indigeneity
Claiming indigeneity for the politically powerful, Hindu nationalists seek to disempower already precarious marginalized communities and use the implausible projection…
Online Hindutva as a global right-wing counterpublic
Rooted in a politics of grievance in each setting, different right-wing counterpublics frequently borrow themes, idioms, and vocabularies from one…
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
The ideologies analyzed in this forum, when embedded in these and other practices of authoritarian states or far-right actors, exert…