...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...
india
here & there
India’s struggle for inter-caste marriage
by Laura DuaneInter-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...
here & there
Hinduism, prosperity, and India’s rising middle class
by Grace Yukich...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...
here & there
India’s Muslims
by Jessica PolebaumAt altmuslim, Parvez Ahmed examines the distressingly low socio-economic status of India’s minority Muslim community and addresses what must be done to empower and integrate Indian Muslims: Persistent religious discrimination...
Asian American religions: Everywhere, all at once
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
off the cuff
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...
here & there
Christian persecution in India
by Laura DuaneThe New York Times reports on a growing trend of the persecution of Christians in India: India, the world’s most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is today haunted...
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...