Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
[PDF] 'Not Flowers, but Flames': the Women Behind the Hindu Nationalist Movement
A Amarasingam, S Desai - 2024
… This paper attempts to unpack how and why women become part of the Hindutva movement, and how many of them have tried to step out … Much of the research on women in the Hindutva movement tends to focus on particular organizations, like the …
Pilgrims and Their Cosmopolitan Itineraries: The Many Worlds of Subhas Chandra Bose, Dilip Kumar Roy, and Yogi Krishnaprem
S Mukherjee - … Mysticism, and Transcultural Entanglements in Modern …, 2024
… It ‘rejects the claim that Hindu nationalists have appropriated Vivekananda’s ideas to push their dark and diabolical political agenda’ and that ‘Vivekananda’s forceful and substantial articulation of Hinduism as religion also makes him the …
Bollywood in the neoliberal era: changing discourses on multiculturalism, terrorism, and nationalism in 'Dil Se…'(1998) and 'Fanaa'(2006)
R Roy, M Mandal - National Identities, 2024
… This is the first academic attempt to historicise Fanaa in terms of the 2001 terrorist attack, and shall also allow us to consider the strong parallels of Otherisation that are inherent within the forces of liberalisation and Hindutva. It shall become clearly …
Ideology and recent attacks on historical-comparative methodology
HH Hock - Language, History, Ideology: The Use and Misuse of …, 2024
Almost from the beginning the discovery of new language relationships was met with ideologically motivated reactions by various individuals and movements; see eg the contributions by Joseph and Laakso in this volume. This chapter focuses on Indian …
[PDF] EXPLORING THE CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT AND PARTY POLITICS: A LESSON FROM INDIA
G Malik
In contemporary times, the terms democracy, development, and citizen participation in a gamut of political structures have received special momentum in the academic discourse, particularly in the social sciences. In this context, the perennial political …
Class,'Race'and the British South Asian Diaspora
R Saini - Politics, Identity and Belonging Across The British …, 2024
This chapter uses existing literature to map the British South Asian Diaspora in relation to their classed, racial, ethnic and religious identities. It will begin by teasing out an operationalisable definition of middle classness that is appropriate for the …
Feminist and Anticaste Pedagogies: A Sharmila Rege Reader
V Geetha, U Chakravarti - 2024
This book comprises the collected essays of Sharmila Rege (1964–2013), which span a range of themes, including critical perspectives on women’s movements, Dalit standpoint feminism, and the relationship between Women’s Studies and other …
Islam and Muslims in the Indian Press: A Content Analysis
SAA Bukhari, N Saleem, W Ahmad - Pakistan Journal of Law, Analysis and Wisdom, 2024
The research paper is an attempt to find out how Islam and Muslims have been represented in the Hindustan Times and The Times of India from July 2023 to November 2023. The researchers intend to explore and analyze the frames …
[PDF] Police work and the politics of expendability in India
B Jauregui - Security Dialogue, 2024
This article examines how rank-and-file police in contemporary India express work-related grievances regarding official neglect of their well-being, systemic exploitation by government authorities and other elites, and routinized threats of bodily harm and …
Political Campaigning in Digital India
AM Varughese, HA Semetko - 2024
… The rise of populist welfare politics with the distinct flavour of Hindutvainspired nationalism seems to have replaced pluralistic and class-based politics. However, Hindutva has been around for decades now, and until 2014, the Bharatiya Janata …
The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India
A Sajjanhar - 2024
… I present an analysis of the BJP's heterodoxy, followed by an overview of Hindutva's ideological basis, and a chronological tracing of how Hindutva and discourses of economic development have been co-constitutive in political regimes …
Dance, Technology and Social Justice: Individual and Collective Emancipation Through Embodied Techniques
K Sarkar - 2024
This book theorizes dance technique as the Greek techne translated as art, and shows how movement can inspire epistemic, philosophical, and cultural conversations in technology studies. Combining dance studies, religious studies …
Exploring How Gender and Culture Shape the Lived Experiences of Indian Clients with Emotional Abuse: A Social Justice Approach to Counselling
N Cheguvera, AA Arur - International Journal for the Advancement of …, 2024
In this study, we have carried out an in-depth, idiographic exploration of how Indian clients describe their experiences of emotional abuse in a parent-adult child context from a social justice lens. This study focused on the contribution of persisting …
Interrupting Identity: Zionism and the Palestinian Other
B Hotez - Rhetoric Review, 2024
Featuring narrative argument in Jewish dissent for Palestinians rights, this article examines identity reconstitution and the attunement to being in relationship with the foreign other. The author promotes a critical rhetoric of first-person narrative for the …
British South Asian Political Conservatisms: The Brown Tory
R Saini - Politics, Identity and Belonging Across The British …, 2024
… Islamophobic sentiment in India which has spilled into local rioting Hindu-Muslim in hyper-diverse areas of the UK such as Leicester in 2022 indicates the religious tensions within the British South Asian Diaspora and the steady yet rising …
Counter Conduct and Autonomy Politics in the Era of Neoliberal Governmentality
E Bora, K Ertuğrul - Global Society, 2024
This study, first, explores the connections between neoliberal governmentality and neo-conservative nationalism, which breeds a global tendency of autocratization, from a Foucauldian perspective. Neoliberal rationality and strategy of governing is …
[HTML] North East Literature & Culture-Page 5
D Biswas, P Pramanik
While the academic world talks of different waves of feminism that have emerged in Europe and the US in the past few centuries, the feminists from the third world countries have reservations on the use of a western framework of feminism in …
Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism
SF Aziz, JL Esposito - 2024
… In India, for example, Muslims are bearing the brunt of the alarming rise of Hindutva— a right- wing Hindu- supremacist political movement endorsed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.17 Thousands of Muslim Indians have been killed by …
UNCOVERING THE LINGUISTIC AGENDA OF 'HINDI'STAN
R Mathew - The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind …, 2024
… Hindutva proponents of Hindi imposition frequently claim that it can help Hindus develop a feeling of national identity and pride that transcends linguistic and geographic barriers. Shashi Tharoor in his article criticizes the Hindutva …
Sexuality Reimagined
S Tandon
In India, social justice is loaded with political and social arguments about ascribed identities such as caste, class, gender, 1 language, and religion. Amidst all this, social justice has failed to a large extent to voice the concerns of sexuality …
Digital Rights and Women's Empowerment in Pakistan: An Analysis of Contemporary Islamic Legal Perspectives in the Age of Social Media
Z Akmal, SAA Usmani - MILRev: Metro Islamic Law Review, 2024
The examination of the convergence between digital rights and women's empowerment is conducted within the socio-legal framework in Pakistan, with particular emphasis on the influence of contemporary Islamic legal perspectives …
Politics, Identity and Belonging Across The British South Asian Middle Classes
R Saini
The politics of identity and citizenship has assumed increasing importance as our polities have become significantly more culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse. Different types of scholars, including philosophers, sociologists, political scientists …
[PDF] Education dnd Beyond: Andlysing the Struggles of 21st Century Women in a Central University
O Anwar, H Fatemah, Z Fatma
… lock of their hostel gates to join the protest" of AMU students against the attack of fringe Hindutva groups on the University against the presence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah's portrait from the Union Hall. The women, led by Naba Naseem, did not fear …
[HTML] Posts in category: Past Events
P Chacko
… Hindutva futurism Abstract: This presentation to argue that authoritarian populist politics in India utilizes populist discursive and mobilizing strategies to advance a ‘Hindutva … The symbolism of Hindutva futurism has been epitomized by an archetypal past-cum-future …
[PDF] Hindutva Vs Islamophobia: Analysis & Way forward
AN Soomro, G Yasmeen, MA Ghani, SM Fatima, S Ara…
… Hindutva and Islamophobia have clashed frequently in the past. Hindutva, the umbrella word for Hindu nationalism in India, and … The discourse surrounding Hindutva and Islamophobia presents a complex interplay of political, social, and …
[PDF] Making The 'Invisible'Visible: A Policy Centric Approach to Corroborate Emancipation of Muslim Women in Mainstream
SU Khan, SH Malik, S Khan
No nation can prosper if its women and minorities remain on periphery. Government report indicates that condition of Muslim women is precarious in terms of literacy, finance, jobs, and political emancipation. 1 Muslims are the biggest minority group in …
What It Takes to Be Counted: An Interview with Ruby Hembrom
R Hembrom, P Narayan - Meridians, 2024
… Resilience is the ever-renewing energy emerging from our struggles in the face of dispossession and Hindutva ultranationalism, drawing from the struggles of our ancestors. Our knowledge systems are kept alive through singers, storytellers, and …
Subaltern Public Theology
RB Patta
In 2004, when I was pursuing my master’s course in Theology, I was invited to speak at an ecumenical youth space in the World Social Forum on the ‘Impact of globalisation on education in India.’As I had no access to our college library at that …
Food City: Ahmedabad as a Globalised Vegetarian Space
JS George - South Asia Research, 2024
Existing studies, highlighting that dining out forms an important part of public cultures in India, have focused on the growing influence of consumer cultures on India’s middle classes and their identity formation. However, insufficient scholarly …
India in 2023: Economic Strength and Democratic Decline
V Yadav - Asian Survey, 2024
… Unfortunately, 2023 also continued to see steep declines in the rights and liberties enjoyed by Indian citizens, particularly citizens whose ideological positions or religious or ethnic identities were inconsistent with the Hindutva (Hindu-nationalist) …
Be nice, or you're not coming in
S Tripathi - Index on Censorship, 2024
… The latest to suffer such erasure is Hindutva Watch, which compiled human rights violations by Hindu fundamentalists. India has escalated demands on X, formerly Twitter, and many accounts critical of the government have been “withheld" recently …
[PDF] Religious Undercurrents and Populist Responses
RM Cherian, JA Thomas - 2024
The neo-populist lens of viewing religious undercurrents is dualistic; the religious undercurrents that neoliberalism has manufactured as an end product and the agencies in power using popular religious sentiments as an instrument, labeled as …
[PDF] MODI 'Wave'-Leadership Legitimation and Institutionalization in Indian Politics
P Rai
… elections thrice that changed his leadership from a Hindutva icon to a charismatic leader-political … Modi created an electoral support base-wedded to 'Hindutva' ideology for political … and creating an ideological ecosystem for majoritarian …
Beyond populism and into the state: The political economy of national-conservatism
G Altinors, A Chryssogelos - The British Journal of Politics and International …, 2024
This article argues that the crises of neoliberal globalisation since the 2000s have given rise to a new transnational political family that we call ‘national-conservatism’. Through a critical examination of the literature on the Global Right and the role of the …
[PDF] Subjectivities, knowledge and gendered and sexual transitions in India
P Boyce, A Khanna
… This is part of a broader political process of ‘saffronisation’ through the rise of an explicitly Hindutva politics in LGBTQI spaces (khanna forthcoming, Upadhyay 2020) which performs the most brutal exclusions through precisely the apparent inclusion …
Nationalist 16 Politics versus Global Inclusivity
I Solomatina - Technology, Sustainability and the Fashion Industry …, 2024
… buzzword from the opening letter) are associated with high-caste Hindu practices championed and celebrated by the far-right, like yoga or … This taken into account, the representation of veganism, yoga and Ayurveda as positive and synonymous …
