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Book Review: The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
A review of The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate by Edwin ...
Kent, Eliza
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Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S241-S259, September 2025.
Abstract The dominant decolonial approach in Adivasi studies and South Asian socio‐legal studies is broadly and primarily rooted in a critical study of the British colonial rule, epistemologies, laws and institutions, as they are considered to be the roots of social, cultural, religious, legal and political challenges faced by post‐colonial India ...
ARVIND KUMAR
wiley   +1 more source

The Demonic and the Seductive in Religious Nationalism : Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the Rites of Exorcism in Secularizing South Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The relationship between religion and nationalism is explored in this paper which takes Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as its core focus of analysis. Given the incomplete process of nation-building in the case of India and the intrinsic challenge of how to ...
Nandy, Ashis
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Hindu Nationalism emerging from narcissism of minor differences in Indo‐Bangladesh borderlands: A gendered narration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 200-213, September 2025.
Abstract The Sundarbans as a region is shared between Bangladesh (60%) and India (40%) and forms an intriguing geography to understand not only the consequences of macro‐political landmarks such as the partition, it is an arable field to explore the intersections of people, history, and politics‐ with a particular recognition of the constructions ...
Sneha Roy
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Transformation in India

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2015
The political changes in indian politics by and large is greatly influenced by the present days ruling party at the centre. And this paper aims to keep reader informed about the development of communal ideology based on Hindu Nationalism in the context
Atique Rahman
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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
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Book Review: Encounters with Hinduism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
A review of Encounters with Hinduism by Horst Georg ...
Dunbar, Scott Daniel
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Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.
Short Abstract This paper addresses the geography of translation by exploring the re‐scripting of Indian spirituality into and through consumerism. More specifically, it examines the interplay between ‘Indian’, ‘modern’, and ‘Western’ in the advertising language deployed by the company Patanjali.
Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett
wiley   +1 more source

Hindutva Civilizationism in India: Unravelling the Human-Ecological Conditions

open access: yesNordia Geographical Publications
India’s Hindutva movement, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, has risen to power in the world’s largest democracy and second-most populous country.
Alexandra McFadden
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Ambedkar and the Hindu culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The Indian Neo Buddhism has aroused a movement since the 50s, which propa-gates Buddhism as the top form of the Indo-genous dharma. - The vast majority of that new religious movement belongs to the Dalits [1], people whose en-dogamous communities have ...
Weber, Edmund
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