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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper shows how India's wind electricity regime does not simply decarbonize electricity; it reorganizes power through a distinctive wind masculinity—a caste‐coded, infrastructural mode of rule that keeps money, machines, and people moving.
David Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Hindutva and Islamophobia

open access: yesStrategic Studies, 2022
This research paper is an attempt to understand rising Islamophobia in India in relation to Hindutva as a political ideology. It is argued that Islamophobia is inherent in Savarkar’s construction of ‘self’ and the ‘other’ that was reinforced by his followers Hedgewar and Golwalkar. These constructs are based on dominant Brahmanic traditions mainly used
openaire   +1 more source

Apartheid South Africa and Israel: Cold War Outposts of US Empire

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay demonstrates how both Apartheid South Africa and Israel operated as outposts of US imperialism during the Cold War in related, connected, and changing ways. In addition, heightening conflicts with their respective liberation movements in the 1980s played directly into the negotiations of the Oslo Accords and the transition from ...
Gillian Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Public WhatsApp Groups Within the Hindutva Ecosystem of Hate and Narratives of “CoronaJihad”

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2021
This article uses the context of the widespread circulation of accounts about “CoronaJihad” in India during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine how public WhatsApp groups that participate in disseminating such accounts function within the ecosystem of hate
Fathima Nizaruddin
doaj  

The Making of an Authoritarian University: Insights From India

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This commentary explores geographies of authoritarianism in universities in contemporary India. It first develops an analytical framework of authoritarian campus geographies by combining insights from critical campus geographies and authoritarian geographies that centres a multi‐scalar practice‐orientated understanding of authoritarianism. The
Ichamati Mousamputri
wiley   +1 more source

When are identity‐based groups harmful to democracy? Victimized majority narratives and Muslim groups in Indonesia

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract When are identity‐based groups harmful to democracy? We argue that identity‐based groups become harmful to democracy when they engage in and promote victimized majority narratives—portraying the majority as being removed from power and sidelined by minority groups.
Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hindutva as an ideology of cultural nationalism

open access: yes, 2003
Hindutva, the ideology of militant Hindu nationalism, has precipitated violent hatreds between the Hindus and Muslims of India, as was evidenced in the recent rioting in the State of Gujarat, which was unprecedented in history.
Yogesh Snehi
core   +1 more source

Conceptions of national identity and interreligious contact avoidance in differing domains: A multigroup analysis of majority and minority religious groups in India

open access: yesBritish Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2026.
Abstract The current research examined how inclusive versus exclusive conceptions of national identity were associated with interreligious contact avoidance across relatively public (neighbours) versus private (marriage) domains among majority and minority religious groups.
Kumar Yogeeswaran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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