...past do they refer, and to which vision of the future? Beginning with the British colonization of India in the 1760s, tracing the development of the category of Islamic law...
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The Modern Spirit of Asia ![]()
by Peter van der Veer
In defense of the fragment
...can one compare India and China when one respects the fragmentary nature of society? To an important extent, the narrative presented in my book reflects the fragmentary nature of the...
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by Wei Zhu
The complicated case of Narendra Modi’s visa
Monday, May 12th, marked the ninth and final phase of India’s general elections, and the results announced in coming hours will likely declare Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister. Modi,...
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by J. Barton Scott
Keeping up with “culture”
...the history of the culture concept in Canadian law? Are there, for example, Canadian stories that parallel the story that Tisa Wenger tells about Pueblo Indians, who skillfully navigated the...
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by Ainslie Embree
How religion gets mixed with violence
...Asia in 1953, his comments on India and Pakistan had the religious coloration that came easily to him. Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, seemed unable to appreciate the moral...
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by Thomas Alberts
Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
...taught by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sudipta Kaviraj, and Charles Taylor. The course drew on examples from European and Indian history that prompted us to think about the relation between modernity (a...
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by Nicole Greenfield
Politics of division
Shashi Tharoor on nationalism and the recent anti-Christian violence in India: And as an Indian, I would argue that the whole point about India is the rejection of the idea...