...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...
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Translation and the afterlives of Anglophone theory
The failures and successes of translation
August 31, 2021
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...
August 31, 2021
Pandemic, religion, and public life
Pandemic security and insecurity in the Gulf
July 16, 2020
...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...
July 16, 2020
Religion in Human Evolution
Beyond reductive naturalism
by Yang Xiao...Greece, China, and India. When he discusses tribal and archaic religions, Bellah focuses on the first two stages of cultural evolution, namely mimetic and mythic. He gives an account of...
December 9, 2011
The Modern Spirit of Asia
Looking back while hurtling forward
by Richard Madsen...of the languages and cultures of India and China (as well as extensive knowledge of European languages). Beset by pressures for specialization and for rapid and steady “productivity,” younger scholars...
May 5, 2014
Constituting Religion
Constituting religion: From South Asia to Malaysia
June 27, 2019
...the right . . . to manage its own affairs” (11-3). Like Malaysia, Pakistan lifted similar constitutional provisions from India (Pakistan 1956: 10 and 11; 1973: 20-A and 20-B; India...
June 27, 2019
The Modern Spirit of Asia
Modern spirits
by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm...have China and India interacting, nor are the details of their imperial encounters worked out. Because The Modern Spirit retreads the contours of pre-existing Euro-American scholarship, it always locates India...
May 8, 2014
The politics of religious freedom
Religious freedom as crisis claims
by Nandini Chatterjee...the Indian state. Charmingly, they said it was because India was not America—in India there was no rigid and complete wall of separation between the Church and State. All this...
May 2, 2012
A Universe of Terms
media
by Kajri Jain...studies, anthropology, and area studies. Media were of interest to scholars of India’s religions before religion was of interest to those working on Indian media. Were it not for the...
February 14, 2020
Ruinations: Violence in these times
The dead ends of Hindu supremacy
August 21, 2024
In December last year, I was back in the Western Indian city of Ahmedabad to meet members of the far-right Hindu nationalist organization Bajrang Dal. For over a decade now,...
August 21, 2024