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Facets of India's Illiberalism
C Jaffrelot - 2023
… This new orientation relies on an ethno-nationalist ideology, Hindutva, that is embodied in a century-old movement, the RSS, which has developed a huge network across society (including a student union and a labor union). This network …
[PDF] Mainstream Weekly
C Kumar
… In doing so, BJP did not just benefit electorally but also fulfil its aims of building a civilisational Hindutva state. Here it is essential to highlight the role played by RSS at the root level. RSS considers tribes ’Vanvasi’, meaning those people live in the forest. …
Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi's charismatic avatar
S Rai - Media, Culture & Society, 2023
This article explores the production of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s saintly charismatic avatar and the mediations of this avatar that seek to bestow him with exceptional authority. It shows how Modi’s avatar is being incarnated along three …
[PDF] “Our blood is becoming white”: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India
G Reddy - American Anthropologist, 2023
“Our blood is becoming white.” This was a constant lament I heard from siddis in contemporary Hyderabad, India—third‐ and fourth‐generation descendants of East African slaves and soldiers recruited by the local ruler or Nizam in the 1860s to form …
Pranab Bardhan, A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries
A Dawer - 2023
… Bardhan notes that, particularly in India, Hindutva right-wing forces invoke historical events to formulate tropes and stereotypical danger from Muslims to stoke further insecurities, which results in the rise of majoritarianism (p. 30). Central to the …
Personalization of politics through visuals: Interplay of identity, ideology, and gender in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election Campaign
D Shome, TA Neyazi, SWT Ng - Media, Culture & Society, 2023
… It is the creative use of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in addition to economic nationalism that has allowed the BJP to emerge as a … However, what is most significant in this image is the pronounced intersection between Hindutva and …
A decolonial birth for anthropology
B Singh - American Ethnologist, 2023
“What good is anthropology?” Rather than accepting a predetermined notion of the good, I ask, What ancestral spirits animate anthropology as a vocation? In pursuing this question, I turn to the inaugural issue of American Ethnologist, which, I suggest …
Liquid Sovereignty: Post-Colonial Statehood of China and India in the New International Order
A Karmazin - 2024
This book project studies the variation of sovereignty in international order by analysing how the general model of sovereignty is localised in the political practice of two major non-Western rising powers, namely China and India. It aims to …
Recognising and Misrecognising Shahrukh Khan in Pathaan
N Majumdar - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… in 2000, shows one of many ways in which the long arm of Hindutva extremism has been with us. One could similarly trace the multivalent … We can still do that, but given the current context of Hindutva power, we can also ask students to consider …
The Pathaan Effect
R Mazumdar - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… Ira Bhaskar describes the film as an intervention against Hindutva propaganda regarding Muslims and their lack of loyalty to the nation. She claims that the generic structure of the action spy thriller necessitates a commitment to patriotism, which …
Cinema in the Age of Social Media
RS Vasudevan, R Thomas, SV Srinivas, S Siddique… - BioScope: South Asian …, 2023
… Social media forms the infrastructure through which emerge not only the political organisation of Hindutva and the spectral figure of the … form that allows Dutta to formulate a documentary aesthetic that challenges Hindutva’s purifying politics to lay …
Pathaan: Action, Sensation and the Spectre of the Muslim
S Ghosh - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… The trolls and foot-soldiers of Hindutva have for years run hate campaigns to ‘kill’ SRK’s career and reputation. Their efforts intensified after the Narendra Modi-led government came to power in 2014. A film that dared to call itself Pathaan was …
Shamelessly Dancing with Pathaan: Reflections on Censorship in Time of Hindu Nationalism
M Mehta - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… The objections to ‘Besharam Rang’ adopt and cultivate Hindutva-looking practices, which seek to generate dichotomies, fix identities and create boundaries. Such practices invite us to view Padukone and Khan not as actors but as ossified …
[PDF] A Legacy of Loss: No Return Address: Partition and Stories of Displacement
E Marino - Testo e Senso, 2023
… massacre of Sikhs, after Indira Gandhi’s assassination11, in the demolition of Babri Masjid, attacked by a Hindutva mob in 1992 (allegedly, the mosque had been built on the site of Rama’s temple)12, and in the 2002 Gujarat riots, ignited by the …
On Pathaan: Betrayal, Commitment and Belonging
I Bhaskar - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… In the post 9/11 world, with rising global Islamophobia and its repercussions in India, where it has been coupled with the increasing percolation into the social fabric of Hindutva beliefs and ideologies, SRK continued to reiterate his secular identity as …
[PDF] Breaking the Silence: A Critical Analysis of Dalit Women's Worldview in Urmila Pawar's Motherwit
K Singh - Creative Saplings, 2023
The Dalit group is among the most oppressed under the contentious but widely accepted social structure known as caste, but some Dalit women have experienced even worse subjugation. The perspective of oppressed Dalit women is examined in …
[PDF] The Shaheen Bagh Strike: Muslim Women and Political Protest in Contemporary India
M Biswas - Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social …, 2023
The Shaheen Bagh protest in New Delhi highlighted the changing dynamics of Muslim women’s participation in socio-political movements in India. This paper argues how Muslim women proved themselves to be concerned citizens while …
[PDF] Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review book series
DJ Walkowitz, B Weinstein
… For Rao and his ilk, Indian historians need to abandon their Marxist and Western hiseoriographicalways to make way for a Hindutva-infused … , we are thus called Ponto insist on a protean and divcrse past that rejects an instrumentalist and triumphalist …
[PDF] RE-VISITING THE TRADITIONAL CONFLICT: ANALYSIS OF KASHMIR DISPUTE USING CONSTRUCTIVIST FRAMEWORK
ZB Inam - ISSRA Papers, 2023
This article seeks to explicate the interpretative analysis of Kashmir dispute. The epistemological shift in the global politics requires the appreciation of endogenous and exogenous factors. The Kashmir conflict is a perpetual strand between India-Pakistan …
[PDF] Unraveling Bollywood's Propaganda: A Framework for Analysing Political Narratives in Indian Cinema
A Palasseri - Journal of Communication and Management, 2023
This research paper delves into the intricate relationship between Bollywood cinema and propaganda. Bollywood, India’s film industry, has been a powerful force in shaping national identity and cultural norms. However, as with any form of media …
[PDF] Demystifying the state of Minorities in Contemporary India: Reading Amit Masurkar's Sherni (The Tigress) from the Vantage Point of Marginality
P Sengupta - CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023
… The Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party has diligently subscribed to Hindu fundamentalist (Hindutva) principles from the very germination of … These include anti-conversion laws, blamed by human rights groups for empowering Hindutva …
[PDF] 'Tribal Development'-Perspective from Below
A GOPI - Journal of State and Society, 2023
… The underlying element in this consideration and approach was that the tribes are also a part of the Hindu population, in a way, in support of the interests of Hindu religious followers, or more specifically, promoters of Hindutva politics. This type of …
[PDF] Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below: By Justin W. Henry. New York: Princeton University Press, 2022, xv+ 277 pages, ISBN …
BS Hewage - Journal of Global Buddhism, 2023
… Citing Banu Subramaniam’s theory of archaic modernity, Henry highlights how the shared desire to discover “procedural knowledge” (127) from deep antiquity to use in the present connects both the Sinhalese Ravana movement and India’s …
[PDF] On the Threshold of Social Changes. The Translation into Sanskrit of Choma's Drum by K. Shivaram Karanth
M Karcz - … IN SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURES AND ARTS, 2023
… What is more, Sanskrit is perceived by Hindutva activists as «a symbol for unifying Hindus around Hindutva» 28. It is significant, that Hindutva … Truschke 2020= Audrey Truschke, Hindutva’s Dangerous Rewriting of History, «South Asia …
[PDF] One Sari, Three Different Ways to Drape It: Trademarks, Religion, Language, and Morality in Post-Colonial India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Z Jafri - UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, 2023
… By including only Hindu, Sikh, and Jain names in the official guidance of prohibited marks, India may also project a certain vision of Indian identity in line with the “pseudo-secularism” and Hindutva ideology espoused by Modi and the BJP …
