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Redrawing the body politic: federalism, regionalism and the creation of new states in India [PDF]
, 2002 In 2000 the federal map of India was redrawn to create three new states, signifying a significant shift in the attitude of many of India's major political parties towards territorial reorganisation.
Mawdsley, Emma
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Coming Home (Ghar Wapsi) and Going Away: Politics and the Mass Conversion Controversy in India
Religions, 2019 This article addresses two recent socio-religious trends in India: mass conversions to Hinduism (Ghar Wapsi) and mass conversions from Hinduism. Despite officially being a secular nation, organizations allied with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP ...
Yashasvini Rajeshwar, Roy C. Amore
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Women Parliamentarians in India since 1991: Challenges and Opportunities
Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs, 2023 India gained a new economic orientation in 1991 following the policy of economic liberalization. It offered the opportunities to close the gender gap in various fields including the political field as visualized in the original goal of the Indian ...
Vatsala Bhusry
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Modi-nomics and the politics of institutional change in the Indian economy [PDF]
, 2016 The term ‘Modi-nomics’ gained widespread publicity across India and resonated internationally during the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for the 2014 general elections.
Pauli, Markus, Schottli, Jivanta
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India's "Strategic Autonomy" and strengthening its ties with the US [PDF]
Przegląd Geopolityczny, 2023 Immediately after independence, India joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which allowed it to avoid having to take sides with either of the then-existing two political-military blocs led by the US and the USSR.
Saroj K. Aryal, Manish J. Pulami
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Rising Gender Inequities: The Case of Authoritarian Patriarchy
Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration, 2023 In 2014, India elected a populist government, the Bharatiya Janata Party, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In line with other populist leaders, such as the former U.S. President, Donald J.
Meghna Sabharwal
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Hindu Rashtra and Bollywood: A New Front in the Battle for Cultural Hegemony
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2020 This paper examines the weaponization by Hindu right-wing politics of the suicide of a young Hindi film actor in September 2020. It argues that his death was invoked in particular ways to sharpen the attack on the Bombay film industry as part of the ...
Nivedita Menon
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CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023 Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party of an emergent Indian nation-state, has, from its genesis ventriloquized and brandished its exacerbating agenda of Hindu Fundamentalism in a flawed myth of an anecdotal Hindu Nationalist past where non-Hindus are
Purbali Sengupta
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Studia z Polityki Publicznej, 2022 After the emergence of "new media," propaganda and so-called "alternative facts" are some of the main tools that have been used by governments, individuals, or interest groups to recalibrate the narration of certain information.
Saroj Kumar Aryal, Simant Shankar Bharti
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Clarifying Pokhran-II in a multilinguistic setting [PDF]
, 2018 In May of 1998, India conducted its second nuclear test after a period of 24 years. This second test, known as Pokhran-II, caught the world by surprise and 17 days later it was followed by Pakistan’s first test of a nuclear device.
Gallacher, Hunter Andrew
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