...Indian laborers, following the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in the 1830s, also led to the export of Indian religions. I would say, though, that the position of...
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Crossing and conversion
Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms
May 22, 2018
...rhetoric in India’s public sphere, other comparable matrimonial dramas have in practice often ended up in India’s courts. This has been the case since the formation of India’s judicial system...
May 22, 2018
Divine motherhood
Thealogy or pathology? Reflections from South India
May 20, 2019
In India, almost everything sacred is female. In Tamil Nadu, South India, all is Mother: the nation (Mother India), the local language (tamilttāy), the Kavery River (also known as Ponni),...
May 20, 2019
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The attacks in Mumbai
by Nicole Greenfield...India,” Sandip Roy worries about what the connections might mean for profiling: “It’s War” headlined the Times of India. “India is Under Attack” said The Hindustan Times. And most ominously,...
December 2, 2008
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Targeting Jews in India
by Laura Duane...targeted in India because he is a Jew…The tradition of the last thousand years has been breached.” According to tradition, there have been Jews in India for thousands of years—Indian...
December 4, 2008
Mumbai 11/26
Attacking Mumbai
by Faisal Devji...this. As a professional activity, terrorism emerged with Pakistani attempts to sponsor militancy in Kashmir, and from this base throughout India. Since Indian Muslims proved unresponsive to such sponsorship for...
December 12, 2008
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Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
by Thomas Alberts...destructive vis-à-vis the overarching goal of promoting liberal democracy in each case? I was particularly struck by Chakrabarty’s discussion of the role of Indian peasants in the political process. As...
August 9, 2010
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Hindutva appropriations of indigeneity
October 19, 2022
Hindu nationalists frequently anoint themselves the Indigenous people of India. This identity claim—informed by upper-caste sensibilities and a core part of Hindutva mythology—is misleading and harmful to numerous minoritized Indian...
October 19, 2022
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva
November 23, 2022
...a systemic effort to “to dismantle Indian civilization and heritage by waging an uncompromising war against India’s government, educational institutions, culture, industry, and society.” In this essay, I show the...
November 23, 2022
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
Interrogating caste privilege from within
May 3, 2023
...India’s histories of religions, politics, and British coloniality as well as the histories of Indian immigration to the United States. Over time, my research began to center on how the...
May 3, 2023












