...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...
india
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...
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,...
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...
The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva
...a systemic effort to “to dismantle Indian civilization and heritage by waging an uncompromising war against India’s government, educational institutions, culture, industry, and society.” In this essay, I show the...
Interrogating caste privilege from within
...India’s histories of religions, politics, and British coloniality as well as the histories of Indian immigration to the United States. Over time, my research began to center on how the...
Secularism and Hindutva histories
by Supriya Gandhi...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...
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
by Arvind Rajagopal...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...
Translating “courts” cautiously
...that need to be considered. Here I will draw out some translation lessons that my work on Indian dar ul qazas—often characterized as “Muslim courts”—has brought into relief. In India,...