...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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Mumbai revisited
by Veena Das, Sumit Ganguly, William R. Pinch, Vijay Prashad, Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao, Tariq Thachil and Arafaat A. Valiani...of the Indian-controlled part of the state have genuine grievances against the Indian state. They do deserve a fair hearing and redress. The use of terror to induce the Indian...
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
Mumbai 11/26
Is Mumbai’s resilience endlessly renewable?
by Arjun Appadurai...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
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
by Barbara D. Metcalf...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 of...
Mumbai 11/26
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...
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan
Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu 
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Andrea R. Jain
India in the American imagination: Historicizing the politics of representation
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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...