Inter-caste marriages in India, though legal, are often met with hatred and violence. Emily Wax reports on this clash of traditional and modern India and on the marriage of Anita...
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Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
...many practitioners today, believed that they were engaging in something pure, ancient, and Indian. In reality, the yoga they were doing was a bricolage of the metaphysical and mundane presented...
Hinduism, prosperity, and India’s rising middle class
by Grace Yukich...emerging in India. As globalization creates a new Indian middle class, the increasingly wealthy are becoming more religious, and not more secular, as secularization theory would have predicted. But they...
Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities
...to India’s Independence Day on August 15 that were meant to showcase India’s rapid development, modernization, and, in this case, care for its rural and tribal populations. (The event was...
India’s Muslims
by Jessica PolebaumAt altmuslim, Parvez Ahmed examines the distressingly low socio-economic status of India’s minority Muslim community and addresses what must be done to empower and integrate Indian Muslims: Persistent religious discrimination...
Canon fodder
...another to allow its tentacles into the Church itself. To combat that tendency, the Church has struggled to centralize its own internal codes. Most importantly, a Code of Canon Law...
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
...or even to Hindu nationalist mobilization. Indeed, the broader context animating this type of bhakti today lies both within and beyond the Indian subcontinent. The ideology of Hindutva and the...
Sacred space and the (post)secular state
...as well as political, labor. In both India and Turkey, rituals of majoritarian grievance have been performed and witnessed for years. The most spectacular example from India was a 1990...
Axial axioms
by Wendy Doniger...focus on India, which is what I know most about. Let me begin with the historical relationship between the several civilizations of “the axial age,” Karl Jasper’s term for a...
Virtual populist regimes
...center—the site of Indian nationalism—and in many of the states, where linguistic or ethnic nationalities struggle to survive against the onslaught of the Indian national parties’ common integralist agenda. The...












