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[As 24 January 2024 marks the Centenary of Dilip Kumar Roy’s first meeting with Sri Aurobindo, we are publishing the text of Sri Aurobindo’s conversations with him
overmanfoundation.org/24-january-202…
Anurag Banerjee, Founder, Overman Foundation]
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[HTML] Jessica Namakkal. Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India
C Gurkaya - 2023
1 In her debut book, historian Jessica Namakkal proposes a countermetanarrative that challenges the notion of “decolonization as a completed event”(p. 5), instead offering a more nuanced understanding of its complexities and ongoing impact. The …
[PDF] Modi's Urge for Hindu State: A Historical Overview of Identity Doctrine
I Sarwar, Z Zafar - PERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY, 2023
… The Hindutva doctrine followed and advocated by BJP actually “sought to define Indian culture in terms of Hindu values”. Which was opposite … at sufferance of Hindutva which is actually against Hindu Teachings. This study will highlight Modi …
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics
A Barrera, RC Amore - 2023
What do world and regional religions say about economic morality? The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics presents together for the first time the key tenets and teachings of numerous faiths on this subject. In doing so, it also …
[PDF] The Constitutionality and Rationality of the Secular Imperative
R Govind
… There is no doubt about the ‘secular’ dimension of Hindutva, if one defines religion in terms of ‘God, Soul and Man’ and sees the emphasis given by Hindutva on history and culture. But there is no doubt a religious aspect of Hindutva if one …
The Politics of Historical Thinking
B Bernet, L Raphael, B Zachariah
Historical thinking has a politics that shapes its ends. While at least two generations of scholars have been guided into their working lives with this axiom as central to their profession, it is somewhat of a paradox that historiography is so often …
Economic decline, ethnonationalism and civil war onset
M Scarcelli - Nations and Nationalism, 2024
Within the scholarship on the causes of civil wars, GDP per capita represents a strong and robust variable. Less attention, however, is paid to the role of economic decline. When it is included at all, scholars tend to consider it only in the period just …
Transforming Caste Domination and the Challenges of Structural Transformations and Transformation of Consciousness: Ambedkar, Shankara and Beyond
AK Giri - Journal of Human Values, 2024
Caste is a multidimensional reality in history and society, and it has manifested itself through varieties of structures of domination which are simultaneously cultural, economic, political and ideological as caste has also been related in complex ways …
[PDF] Gur-Sikhi Beyond Indigeneity and Liberal Pluralism: Aporia and the Pluriversal
BS Bhogal
… Realist–revitalist (Hindutva and the RSS), 2.Realist–pragmatist (Hindu nationalists in power – … instigated by a single Hindutva-led Hindu nationalist epistemology, seems to have brought … Since the rise of Modi’s BJP/RSS the Left …
Translation in Colonial Maharashtra
M Kulkarni - Nodes of Translation: Intellectual History between …, 2024
A large (307,690 sq. km) and populous (over 125 million inhabitants) state in western India, Maharashtra was formed in 1960 as a result of a popular movement that demanded a separate province for the Marathi-speaking people. The cultural …
Translating Marx and Engels: Adhikari, Dange and the Indian Revolution
J Shaikh - Nodes of Translation: Intellectual History between …, 2024
In December 1928, Gangadhar Adhikari arrived in Bombay with a tranche of books, pamphlets, and letters. Adhikari had completed a PhD in Chemistry at Friedrich Wilhelms Universität and had joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1926, while …
[HTML] Posts in category: Home
M Nord
… , entitled “Mapping Global Populism”: The Role of Populism, Radicalization and Hindutva in India, which took place online on August 31, 2023. … The answer to this question was divided into two main narratives that Hindutva is adopting: the …
“We Have to Convince Them Whatever it Takes:” The Climate Necropolitics of Energy Transitions in India and Zambia
S Shokrgozar, D Remme, R Stock - Geoforum, 2024
… Although internationally acclaimed, India’s solar energy ambitions are unfolding in the context of a violent and repressive Hindu nationalism (henceforth, Hindutva) that increasingly weaponizes the environment to ensure its ascendancy. Hindutva is …
From domestic guardian to the national militia: the familial, the national and the middle class in 1980s popular Hindi films
D Ray, P Radhakrishnan - National Identities, 2024
This essay analyzes the theme of domestic anxiety of the Indian middle class in the 1980s through two specific genres of the contemporary popular Hindi films – the family drama and the action adventure. Poised right before the 1990s neoliberal …
[PDF] Bilateralism between India and Bangladesh Post West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021
S Saha
… BJP’s Hindutva politics at the centre could be a real possibility in 2024. Though Indian voters prefer Modi at the centre, perhaps due to a lack of alternatives, their preferences have changed at the regional level as seen in recent state elections. M. …
Indian cricket, popular culture and “national Thing”: Reflections from sport‐induced nationalism
CK Anuranj, A Sircar - International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2024
… Therefore, it can be deduced that cricket is intrinsic to Ali, a tiny feature whose presence magically transubstantiates Ali as a nationalist, the very reason that protects him from the new Hindutva gaze. Ishaan's interest in coaching Ali, despite …
'Hunger for certainty': misrecognition, masculinity and agentic action in India's and Russia's desires for neocolonial subjecthood
C Kinnvall, T Svensson - Global Discourse, 2024
This article takes as its point of departure the postcolonial understanding of the nation as a subject constructed through the colonial encounter. It argues that at the core of both colonial and postcolonial subject formations lies a desire for …
[HTML] Getting to RSIS
B Mok, BSBBC Basha
… pro-Hindutva extremists and the mainstream pro-government elements of the Hindutva … narratives being circulated on fringe pro-Hindutva online Telegram channels. Many of these … the Indian Parliament, fringe pro-Hindutva extremists on …
[HTML] Roy, Srila. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India
V Dutoya - 2024
1 The institutionalization and professionalization of feminism have been hot issues in feminist debates over the last three decades. In particular, anxieties around the “NGOization” of feminism can be found in most feminist spaces, from the Global South to the …
[PDF] Death is a Woman: A Mahabharatan Framework for Postcolonial Hindu Feminism
S Variyar - 2023
… This thesis develops the work of my Master of Philosophy thesis, accepted in 2018, which examined the use of the Rāmāyana to reinforce Hindutva ideology and socio-political Hindu nationalism. Sections contextualising textual and social constructions of …
[PDF] In Search of Redemption
A Basu, P Tripathi
The predominance of the feminist concern and a patriarchal metanarrative within the gender metaphysics of India [1] has long subsumed the issues of masculinity. The existing study around the representation of masculinity in Indian cinema primarily …
[PDF] Historiographical metafiction in The Moor's Last Sigh and Wide Sargasso Sea.
A Eapen
… The disintegration of Moorish Spain during the time of Emperor Boabdil IX followed by the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from the country by Christian Emperors, is repudiated in the rejection of Nehru’s secular, pluralist vision of India …
[PDF] Hindu‐Christian Comparative Theology in a Decolonial Key
M Voss - Modern Theology, 2024
This article imagines how the discipline of comparative theology might sound in a decolonial key. Focusing on implications for Hindu‐Christian comparative theology, this article puts the sacramental theological approach of Indian Christian artist and …
The Poet with an All-encompassing Elemental Heart
P Varma
… Here, one crucial thing that has to be understood is that, any attempt to deem and maintain Akkittham as a poet unacceptable for the Left, is an oblique strengthening of a certain Brahminical Hindutva argument that seeks to monopolize all cultural …
[HTML] In Search of Purity: German-Speaking Vegetarians and the Lure of India (1833–1939)
J Hauser - … Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800 …, 2024
In this chapter (Based on the author’s forthcoming book, A Taste of Purity), Julia Hauser argues that India played a crucial role in the German vegetarian discourse. While contacts were less direct than in Britain, references to India served to buttress …
[HTML] Hakenkreuz, Swastika and Crescent: The Religious Factor in Nazi Cultural Politics Regarding India
B Roy - … Entanglements Between Germans and Indians, 1800 …, 2024
This chapter examines, on the basis of under-utilized archival materials, the uses of different religions in Nazi cultural politics aimed at India between 1933 and 1939. The goal of such politics was to generate respect for Nazi Germany and project it as …
[PDF] KASHMIR CONFLICT: THE APPROACH OF HUMANITARIANISM
AI Tahirkheli - Strategic Thought, 2023
… This was a crude attempt to change the demography of Muslim-dominated Kashmir during occupation with Hindutva ideology. … According to Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Push Hindutva agenda in IIOK is further Inciting Religious …
[PDF] The Many Lives of Kayamkulam Kochunni
T Sebastian
… as a useful heuristic tool to chart the rise of Hindutva as a dominant ideology in relation to the gendered citizen-subject. I have argued elsewhere that these studies were conducted in the backdrop of the rise of Hindutva as a political ideology …
For Bhaisa'ab–'Taskeen Ko Hum Na Royen'
A Ahmad
… Politics were his central concern, and whether analysing the rise of Hindutva, the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab spring, or the October revolution, one cannot but be struck by the extraordinary erudition across disciplines, ranging far beyond …
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