...Secular law has become a tool for the cultivation of wounded religious feelings. Enacted in 1860, the Indian Penal Code remains in effect across former British India, including Pakistan, Bangladesh,...
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Mumbai revisited
by Veena Das, Sumit Ganguly, William R. Pinch, Vijay Prashad, Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao, Tariq Thachil and Arafaat A. Valiani...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...
November 25, 2009
The Modern Spirit of Asia
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...
April 30, 2014
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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,...
December 11, 2024
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
November 9, 2022
...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...
November 9, 2022
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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;...
November 26, 2024
Mumbai 11/26
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...
December 7, 2008
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“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...
September 7, 2011
Sharia Compliant
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
April 24, 2018
...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...
April 24, 2018
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
November 29, 2017
...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...
November 29, 2017