...this. As a professional activity, terrorism emerged with Pakistani attempts to sponsor militancy in Kashmir, and from this base throughout India. Since Indian Muslims proved unresponsive to such sponsorship for...
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Crossing and conversion
Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms
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by Laura Duane
Targeting Jews in India
...targeted in India because he is a Jew…The tradition of the last thousand years has been breached.” According to tradition, there have been Jews in India for thousands of years—Indian...
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by Nicole Greenfield
The attacks in Mumbai
...India,” Sandip Roy worries about what the connections might mean for profiling: “It’s War” headlined the Times of India. “India is Under Attack” said The Hindustan Times. And most ominously,...
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by Supriya Gandhi
Secularism and Hindutva histories
secularism. The current government’s many ideological interventions include attacking discourses on Indian secularism, as well as challenging the meaning and content of Indian history. One of the most powerful historical...
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by Arvind Rajagopal
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
of discourse on Indian airwaves, but the result is not what was foreseen by free speech advocates. Instead of official propaganda, which no one believed, audiences in India now get...
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by Laura Duane
India’s struggle for inter-caste marriage
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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by Grace Yukich
Hinduism, prosperity, and India’s rising middle class
...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...