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Creating Suitable Evidence of the Past? Archaeology, Politics, and Hindu Nationalism in India from the End of the Twentieth Century to the Present

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2020
This article deals with the relationship between Hindu nationalism and archaeology in India from the end of the twentieth century onwards. Archaeology has been closely linked to the political sphere since the nineteenth century, in particular through the
Anne-Julie Etter
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Right wing ascendance in India and politicisation of India’s military [PDF]

Антиномии, 2019
The rise to taking over state power after elections of 2014 by majoritarian forces in India has since witnessed weakening of institutions of governance.
Ali Ahmed
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ONLINE AND OFFLINE MANIFESTATION OF HINDUTVA IDEOLOGY IN INDIA DURING THE COVID-19 SPREAD

Margalla Papers, 2021
Towards the end of January 2020, COVID-19 made its headway into India. The irresponsible behaviour of the Modi government in containing the spread of Coronavirus forced it to opt for an ill-planned and hastily imposed lockdown.
Fahad Nabeel , Maryam Raashed
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Hindutva as a factor of unification and confrontation in Indian society

RUDN Journal of World History
While in power, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the leadership of Narendra Modi, has been using Hindutva - the ideology of the Hindu nationalism - as the basis of its public policies aimed at deeply modernising the country and mobilising the ...
Olga L. Solodkova, Mariia S. Antasheva
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The Rise of the Hindu Religious Factor in Indian Politics and State Theory

Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018
We are living in an age of reaffirmation and revival of religious/national and cultural identities as a reaction to the sweeping onslaught of socio-economic, cultural and technological globalization.
Côme Carpentier de GOURDON
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TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN NATIONALISM AND ‘OTHERIZATION’ OF MUSLIMS IN INDIA

Margalla Papers, 2021
India has altered its military stratagem under the Modi government from nuclear deterrence to offensive defence. The constant use of offensive defence in the milieu of deliberate political aggression against Pakistan and victimization of the Muslim ...
Aisha Shahzad, Sadia Mahmood Falki, Asma Sana Bilal   +2 more
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Hindu Civilizationism: Make India Great Again

Religions, 2023
Hindu civilizationism is more than a century old phenomenon that has been steadily gaining strength. Its recent amalgam with populism has made it ascendant, popular, and mainstream in India.
Raja M. Ali Saleem
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
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Islamic Liberation Theology and Decolonial Studies: The Case of Hindutva Extractivism

Religions, 2023
Decolonial studies define the coloniality of power as a complex assemblage of dominance and hegemony that emerged during the modern era or the era of colonialism, which stretches from the conquest of the Americas to the present. This article argues that,
Ashraf Kunnummal
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