...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,...
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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
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
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
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Call for Applications | Research and Working Group Grants through the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative
by The Editors...match the requested amount. The grant period is March 15, 2023 – March 15, 2024, and all grant funds must be spent by March 15, 2024. The final report will...
October 7, 2022
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
Mumbai 11/26
The death of secular India is greatly exaggerated
by Sumit Ganguly...to the ISI-D’s role and involvement, a mostly spontaneous, local uprising against Indian rule has been transformed into a vicious, religiously motivated extortion racket. Despite Indian diplomatic entreaties and military...
December 4, 2008