...theory. One fact is perhaps clearer to many politicians and senior administrators in India now, and that is that an unstable Pakistan might become much more difficult for India to...
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Comparing China and India
by Peter van der Veer...is good to realize that, despite its foreign origins, English is now also an Indian vernacular. It is also good to realize that, despite the prevailing notion that everything in...
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...to protect “religious feelings,” the Code ended up further inflaming them. The Indian Penal Code’s sections on religious injury were, I am suggesting, hate speech laws avant la lettre —...
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
...India’s reputation as the world’s largest democracy in diplomatic endeavors and for several reasons. India’s geopolitical location and economy also make it a natural American ally. For the West, India...
Is Mumbai’s resilience endlessly renewable?
by Arjun Appadurai...especially in Delhi, was the first sign that any Indian minority could henceforth be the “other” and that Hindu mobs were capable of organized bestiality on a grand scale. The...
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
by Barbara D. Metcalf...this was “an Indian story:” the winning side was of “superior caste,” a family of north Indian, Urdu-speaking, “sayyids,” who thus were part of the north Indian well-born class that...
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
...what seems like the majority of Muslims are preoccupied with pretty mundane questions, that they are quite comfortable with patching, hacking, and reinterpreting texts for new problems, and that there...
Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
...which this discussion of what religion was in India was also a discussion about what religion was in the United States. “What is religion?” is not a question with a...
The death of secular India is greatly exaggerated
by Sumit Ganguly...allowed its Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI-D) to exploit a range of India’s home grown political difficulties. To that end, it is well known that Pakistan trained, supported and provided sanctuaries...
Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan
...right-wing organizations) in India, we notice Hindu nationalism’s convergence with the discursive structure of Pakistan’s Muslim nationalism. Note, first, that the notion that Hindus are believers and all non-Hindus nonbelievers...