In December last year, I was back in the Western Indian city of Ahmedabad to meet members of the far-right…
The dead ends of Hindu supremacy
Hindutva
Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan
On January 17, 2023, BBC World aired the first episode of its controversial two-part miniseries titled India: The Modi Question.…
Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond
Rather than speak of the “right,” we in this concluding essay urge all to call these projects what they actually…
Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities
On August 4, 2022, in the run-up to India celebrating its seventy-fifth Independence Day, the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission (SRMD), a…
The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva
US Hindu nationalist groups capitalize on anti-racist discursive models, decolonial language, as well as the liberatory structures of Black and…
Hindutva appropriations of indigeneity
Claiming indigeneity for the politically powerful, Hindu nationalists seek to disempower already precarious marginalized communities and use the implausible projection…
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
How do we understand the Islamicness of Urdu poetry and also the spread of Urdu poetry far beyond the bounds…
Secularism and Hindutva histories
In response to the question “Is this all there is?” I turn to ruptures and fields of contestation to reflect…