...am acutely aware of this writing from India, where I am currently doing fieldwork, and where the colonial historical project of vilifying Muslim rule in India has now become the...
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Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
...work by guiding our attention to “cinematic populist regimes” in India, which express the competing nationalisms of India and the nationalities that comprise it. This once more highlights the significance...
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
...he moved from speaking about the testimonies of the riot survivors to speaking of the persistence of Urdu in India. What they were saying was a kind of literature, it...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
by Craig Calhoun...plea for pursuing necessary knowledge. Bhutto’s assassination comes just three months after the 60th anniversary of Pakistan’s birth. The partition of what had been British India in August 1947 was...
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu—An introduction
...“Hindoos” in schoolbooks taught students to distinguish between white/Protestant/democratic America and brown/heathen/despotic India. Across a variety of representations of heathens, Hindoos, and Hindus these Indian Others functioned as stand-ins for...
“Twin tolerations” today: An interview with Alfred Stepan
by Joseph Blankholm...then a specialist on comparative religion but I had traveled frequently to India, and I was absolutely certain that you don’t need secularism in the classic social science sense of...
Le mal des fleurs
Surely one reason for the ongoing but mistakenly benign and otherworldly cliché of India as a land of “spirituality” is the sheer proliferation of religious images, sounds, and smells in...
Scholar or retailer of import goods? Reza Aslan, his guru, and his critics
...apparent respect paid to you in Benares . . . The scene in the passages is the most Indian in India. The gaudy dresses of the Hindu princes spending a...
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
...movement. His was an Islam without Arabs with the exception of Muhammad. Despite their outspoken anti-imperialism, both Marcus and Sampter benefited from British colonialism. Marcus’s relations with the British India-based...
Online Hindutva as a global right-wing counterpublic
...The idea may have been expressed earlier in the English-language press in India, but it was amplified online as larger numbers of Indians gained internet access. As I have argued,...