...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...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
...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”
...Today Muslims are problematically and singularly blamed for the Partition of India in 1947. This anti-Muslim animus in postcolonial India gained further momentum under the country’s unique trajectory of Brahmin...
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...