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Orientalism’s Hinduism, Orientalism’s Islam, and the Twilight of the Subcontinental Imagination

Religions, 2023
Using the figure of the ethnic Pathan/Pashtun as a trope in South Asian culture, this essay provides a genealogical account of the modern emergence of Hindu–Muslim “religious” conflicts played along the lines of nation-thinking in the Indian subcontinent.
Anustup Basu
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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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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Shakespeare, "Macbeth" and the Hindu Nationalism of Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Multicultural Shakespeare, 2016
The essay examines a Bengali adaptation of Macbeth, namely Rudrapal Natak (published 1874) by Haralal Ray, juxtaposing it with differently accented commentaries on the play arising from the English-educated elites of 19th Bengal, and relating the play to
Abhishek Sarkar
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Hindutva’s Blood

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2020
In this article we examine blood as a medium and metaphor for Hindutva’s political transactions. Specifically, we identify three ways in which blood operates in Hindutva thought and practice.
Dwaipayan Banerjee, Jacob Copeman
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Upsurge of the Bharatiya Janata Party in India

, 2020
This research paper examines the development of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India since its establishment and its governance inside the country. The BJP is influenced by the ideals of Hindu nationalism, and such ideals can be visible through the ...
Choi, Anthony (Sungho)
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Review of Religious Division and Social Conflict [PDF]

, 2009
A review of Peggy Froerer, Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India.
Bauman, Chad M
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In God’s Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence

, 2016
In this paper, I argue that Indian independent filmmaker Pankaj Rishi Kumar\u27s documentary In God’s Land (2012) blends animation and live-action to illuminate the destructive nuances of postcolonial literary scholar, Rob Nixon\u27s notion of slow ...
Monani, Salma
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Book Review: Hindu God, Christian God. How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions [PDF]

, 2002
A review of Book Review: Hindu God, Christian God.
Malkovsky, Bradley
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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
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