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Other Visions of the Economy: NGOs and Transformations of Islamic Charity in North India
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores how new Islamic charity NGOs in India are transforming age‐old practices of obligatory Islamic almsgiving (zakat). This transformation reconfigured the ritual of zakat from its historical emphasis on local giving among kin and neighbors to an NGO‐based developmentalist process.
Christopher B. Taylor
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Review of Development Economics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 2227-2241, November 2025.ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of the state‐level inheritance rights reforms in India, which granted women the right to inherit joint family property, on the years of education and real wages of female wage earners. The reforms targeted Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists.
Asuka Yamamoto
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Federalism as a Moderating Force? State-level Responses to India’s New Citizenship Law
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2020 This contribution focuses on the response of India’s states to the central government’s controversial decision to amend the country’s citizenship law. Since the legislation was passed in late 2019, a dozen states and Union territories as well as hundreds
Loraine Kennedy
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Viewpoint: the future of human rights in India
The South Asianist, 2015 (excerpt from the text) In May 2014, to the surprise of many commentators, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party – the BJP – not only won the General Election (as widely expected), but did so with an overall majority by itself, without needing the coalition ...
Roger Jeffery
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Reading Islamophobia in Hindutva: An Analysis of Narendra Modi's Political Discourse
Islamophobia Studies Journal, 2018 This article analyzes the narratives of Islamophobia in Hindu Nationalism (Hindutva). Specifically, it analyzes how Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), articulates Islamophobia in his speeches ...
Prashant Waikar
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Policy differentiation and the politics of belonging in India's emigrant and emigration policies. [PDF]
Citizensh Stud, 2023 Burmeister-Rudolph M.
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Examining the Intervention of Religion in Indian Politics Through Hindutva Under the Modi Regime
ReligionsThis review article analyses the wide-ranging influence of Hindutva in Indian politics over the decade of Narendra Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister of India.
Vineeth Thomas +3 more
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Revista de Relaciones Internacionales, Estrategia y Seguridad, 2018 En las elecciones nacionales de 2014, el Bharatiya Janata Party, encabezado por Narendra Modi, logró formar gobierno por primera vez en la historia de India, sin contar con el apoyo del partido del Congreso Nacional Indio.
Clarisa Giaccaglia, María Noel Dussort
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Challenging cow dung COVID therapies and bullshit state policies in India in 2021. [PDF]
Dialect Anthropol, 2021 Mathur C.
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South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic JournalThis paper examines the effects of organizational centralization on two key dimensions of Indian politics within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): the descriptive representation of marginalized social groups and the configuration of local party systems ...
Dishil Shrimankar, Arvind Kumar
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