...of the Indian-controlled part of the state have genuine grievances against the Indian state. They do deserve a fair hearing and redress. The use of terror to induce the Indian...
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Comparing China and India
by Peter van der Veer...today, and India and China have been gradually developed into nation-states. That is why one can compare India and China as nation-states, although these societies are, internally, immensely differentiated, and...
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...the House of Lords solicited an official statement from Indian attorney-general Soli Sorabjee on the Code’s outcomes. Sorabjee’s report was emphatically negative. The Code, he said, had fostered “intolerance, divisiveness,...
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
...Modi continues to use the discourse of terrorism to represent India in a favorable light internationally and to win elections repeatedly. Just before the 2019 Indian elections, Modi raised the...
Is Mumbai’s resilience endlessly renewable?
by Arjun Appadurai...to their models and teachers in India. Their message was simple: India is Hindu; all non-Hindus in India are potentially treacherous minorities; Muslims are especially dangerous because they substantially support...
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
by Barbara D. Metcalf...dangerous labels. Already subject to widespread discrimination and suspicion in India, Muslim Indians could be harmed by such careless labeling. Instead, I argued, Deobandis in India, as in each of...
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
...in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the law “code” in more senses than one. If the code is a...
Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
...point of Michael Altman’s Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893, a concise and thoughtful examination of American thinking about religion and India in the nineteenth century. Here, Altman...
The death of secular India is greatly exaggerated
by Sumit Ganguly...Muslim elite departed for Pakistan. Elements of that elite remained and thrived in post-independence India. Others who managed to avail themselves of educational opportunities prospered and blended into India’s vast,...
Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan
...of other strongmen in the United States, Turkey, Israel, and elsewhere. But there is also a longer, and specifically Indian subcontinental, dynamic at work in both India and Pakistan. The...