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Defining Religion: The Indian Supreme Court and Hinduism [PDF]

, 2006
This paper examines how the Supreme Court in independent India has defined Hinduism and the consequences that flow from attempts to define Hinduism.
Sen, Ronojoy
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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
wiley   +1 more source

Secularity and hinduism’s imaginaries in india [PDF]

, 2014
Partiendo del concepto de ‘imaginario social’ de Charles Taylos –es decir, el tipo de comprensión colectiva que un grupo debe tener para darles sentido a sus prácticas– el artículo sostiene que las contradicciones que emergen de las interpretaciones de ...
Shankar, Shylashri
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Book Review: Was Hinduism Invented? : Britons, Indians, and Colonial Construction of Religion [PDF]

, 2007
A review of Was Hinduism Invented?
Fort, Andrew O.
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Rhetorics of Counternationalism: The Limitations of Digital Anti‐Hindutva in Combating Right‐Wing Extremism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are online discourses in subissues within counternationalist movements constructed? This study better understands what comprises digital counternationalist dissent against right‐wing nationalism, finding that right‐wing nationalism's success can also be explained through limitations in counternationalist discourse.
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
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Between the Boundaries of Asceticism and Activism: Understanding the Authority of the Sadhvis within the Hindu Right in India

Religions, 2023
Given the emergence of the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement in the early 1990s, a group of female ascetics and sadhvis displayed tendencies of eschewing conventional gendered images and reinforcing the ideals of virtuous motherhood and female warriorhood in an ...
Koushiki Dasgupta
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Book Review of Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal [PDF]

, 2008
The eighteen articles in this volume grew from papers delivered at the 2006 Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. The Symposium featured both newer and more advanced scholars who presented papers on a variety of topics and traditions of India (but ...
Bauman, Chad M
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Putting Indian christianities into context: Biographies of christian conversion in a leprosy colony [PDF]

, 2014
Gandhian and Hindutva-inspired discourses around conversions to Christianity in India over-simplify the historical nexus of relations between missionaries, converts and the colonial state.
Staples, J
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Nationalist–Feminine Bifurcation: The Construction of National Morality Through Gender Regimes

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of nationalist–feminine bifurcation to analyse how nationalist–populist regimes construct moral orders through gendered representations. It explores how women are simultaneously portrayed as the idealized ‘national woman’ and the excluded ‘moral threat’. Through a comparative discourse analysis of four cases—
Muhammed Ramazan Demirci
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Les enjeux politiques de l’hindouisme dans l’Inde actuelle

Cybergeo, 2001
After 40 years of relative political stability, India has experienced six changes of government in the 1990’s and the rise of Hindu nationalism. The ascension to power of a coalition led by the BJP (Bharatya Janata Party) is the result of this party’s ...
Kamala Marius-Gnanou
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