...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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Jihad, fitna, and Muslims in Mumbai
by Veena Das...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...
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...
Imagining community
...Indian laborers, following the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in the 1830s, also led to the export of Indian religions. I would say, though, that the position of...
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),...
The attacks in Mumbai
by Nicole Greenfield...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,...
Targeting Jews in India
by Laura Duane...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...
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...
Attacking Mumbai
by Faisal Devji...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...
Hindutva appropriations of indigeneity
Hindu nationalists frequently anoint themselves the Indigenous people of India. This identity claim—informed by upper-caste sensibilities and a core part of Hindutva mythology—is misleading and harmful to numerous minoritized Indian...