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...
india
off the cuff ![]()
by Veena Das, Sumit Ganguly, William R. Pinch, Vijay Prashad, Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao, Tariq Thachil and Arafaat A. Valiani
Mumbai revisited
...India’s federal structure. Nevertheless, India can ill-afford its usual institutional lethargy about these matters of internal security. Third, and to the credit of the Manmohan Singh administration, the Indian government...
Mumbai 11/26 ![]()
by Arjun Appadurai
Is Mumbai’s resilience endlessly renewable?
...to their models and teachers in India. Their message was simple: India is Hindu; all non-Hindus in India are potentially treacherous minorities; Muslims are especially dangerous because they substantially support...
Essays ![]()
by Barbara D. Metcalf
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
...and dangerous labels. Already subject to widespread discrimination and suspicion in India, Muslim Indians could be harmed by such careless labeling. Instead, I argued, Deobandis in India, as in each...
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by Sumit Ganguly
The death of secular India is greatly exaggerated
...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...
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu 
by Andrea R. Jain
India in the American imagination: Historicizing the politics of representation
by Andrea R. Jain
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...
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by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Reflections on the future of Indian democracy
...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...
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by Veena Das
Jihad, fitna, and Muslims in Mumbai
in response to specific questions posed by individuals, seeking guidance about whether Muslims were obligated to migrate from India to Muslim lands, or whether Indian Muslims were obliged to follow...
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by C.S. Adcock
The problem of translation: A view from India
...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...