...focus on India, which is what I know most about. Let me begin with the historical relationship between the several civilizations of “the axial age,” Karl Jasper’s term for a...
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Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right
A multitude of images featuring the prime minister, Narendra Modi, routinely emanates from the digital and print platforms of the ruling Hindu right in India. In some of these, Modi...
Virtual populist regimes
...center—the site of Indian nationalism—and in many of the states, where linguistic or ethnic nationalities struggle to survive against the onslaught of the Indian national parties’ common integralist agenda. The...
Sacred space and the (post)secular state
...as well as political, labor. In both India and Turkey, rituals of majoritarian grievance have been performed and witnessed for years. The most spectacular example from India was a 1990...
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
...remark that the entire combined literatures of India and Arabia were worth less than one shelf of a good English library. Macaulay was sent to India by Utilitarian philosopher James...
Between Mother India and Jim Crow: Yoga in the United States during the interwar decades
...how varied and flexible the ideas of yoga were during the interwar years. In advance of the reforms of the hatha yoga renaissance in India, yoga in America was mostly...
The skull that begs
by Marko Geslani...funded by the Jois Foundation, to teach yoga in public schools. In this case, in which historian of American religion Candy Gunther Brown (Indiana University) testified as an expert witness,...
Practices of relation: Goh and Kaell
...too aware of the immensity of the global order—how the Indian diaspora constituted only a tiny fraction of the world outside of India, and how the Indian Christian diaspora in...
The failures and successes of translation
In January 2020, the elite Indian engineering college IIT Kanpur set up a panel to investigate whether the Urdu poem Hum Dekhenge (“We shall see”), written in 1970 by the...
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
...or provided the benefits promised as part of their work packages. On May 7, India began allowing repatriation flights from the Gulf, and the Consul General of India in Dubai...