...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...
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Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
...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...
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...
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. The series investigates Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s troubled relationship...
Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond
...it has been relentless in its majoritarian project of demonizing Muslims, Christians, communists, and secularists as enemies of India and in working towards transforming India into a Hindu nation-state. While...
India in the American imagination: Historicizing the politics of representation

...applies to the Indian state: “I am a big fan of Hindu, and I am a big fan of India.” His mirroring of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist...
Reflections on the future of Indian democracy
by Dipesh Chakrabarty...deep within the history of Indian politics and is peculiar to India to some extent. To have an effective cordon sanitaire against terror would require India to inject a degree...
The problem of translation: A view from India
by C.S. Adcock...India. It informed the colonial policy of religious toleration, and it informed the practice of extending political representation to Indians as members of communities. Indian political elites learned to speak...
Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms
...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...
Thealogy or pathology? Reflections from South India
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),...