...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,...
Most-Read Essays of 2024

Check out The Immanent Frame‘s ten most-read essays of 2024! This year’s essays were featured in the forums “Ruinations: Violence in these times” and “Experimental books.” Others were standalone essays,...
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...
Fall 2024 Call for Individual Essays – US Politics and Religion

...but are not limited to, the role of religious ideas, practices, and organizations in the 2024 presidential race and its outcome; changing views on migrants, borders, and territory or land;...
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...