...Nivedita Menon Abstract This article addresses three interrelated themes: the institutional transformations of Indian universities since India's independence, debates in India over the assumed universality of Western modes of knowledge production and transmission, and the overarching philosophical...

...Debaditya Bhattacharya Abstract While publicly funded institutions in India have provoked the punitive ire of the ruling Hindu right and systematically invited acts of state terror, a new education policy drafted by the same ruling party advocates a wholesale return to a “liberal arts” curriculum...

... in central India between Maoist guerillas and the Indian state, I argue that, far from being a palliative for or alternative to insurgency, Indian democracy as practiced today—both in its procedural electoral aspects and its substantive welfare aspects—may serve as an active tool of counterinsurgency...

...Dickens Leonard Abstract Reflecting on the “suicide” of the anti-caste student activist in India, Rohith Vemula, now a Dalit icon, this paper looks at the various meanings that his suicide note generates for the Dalit present. Mobilizing historical and philosophical material, particularly the work...

... presents a set of demands which include that Articles 370 and 35A of India's constitution be reinstated; that the popular participation of Kashmiri people in any further policy decision be ensured; that all political leaders, social activists, youth, and children be released; and that special provisions...

... Benjamin Netanyahu greeted him with a statement that underscored the burgeoning friendship between the two countries. Waxing eloquent on their shared love for yoga, which Modi has invested considerable effort in promoting internationally as a symbol of India's “soft power,” Netanyahu said, “When I do...

.... Such transformation is possible without reducing the core sociopolitical ideology of these founding thinkers of social justice and “social democracy” in India or elsewhere in the world. I am grateful to Kathleen Guidroz (Georgetown University) and Rajbir Parashar (RKSD College, Kaithal, India...

... journalistic reflections on British rule in India, namely “the question of revolution, and its necessity, as a precondition for humanity's liberation in Asia.” 1 Amel's contention should be reckoned with in any serious confrontation with the presence of Orientalism or Eurocentrism in Marx's own thought...

... substances that threaten to destroy these regimes? The contributions on India, Turkey, Greece, and the United States included in this issue provide examples of the ways in which discourses and structures of liberal democracy are in crisis throughout the world, under the mounting pressure of financial...

.... Said makes two criticisms of Marx. (1) According to Said, Marx advances “the notion of an Asiatic economic system in his 1853 analyses of British rule in India” 2 as well as the idea of a “fundamentally lifeless Asia” ( O , 154). Both notions are by this account “perfectly fitted . . . to a standard...

... in Marx's thinking about India results from a real, material contradiction—the tension between traditional social structures, which are static, bound in a unity, and subject to eternal laws, and the possibility of the new, of revolutionary change bound by the temporal. Amel refers here to Marx's essays...

... in jobs. Between 2000 and 2015, thirty percent of the jobs in manufacturing in the US were lost to automation, and the forthcoming wave of automation of service industries (including driving, office work, courier services, sales, and a number of caregiving functions) will see a higher loss. By 2021, India...

...Jamila M. H. Mascat As in al-ʿAzm's review of Orientalism , Marxist historicist readings of Marx argue that Marx's inscription of the history of modern India into a progressive and gradual scheme of development cannot be considered per se Orientalist. Rather, by these accounts, it should...

... Hindus and Muslims in the run-up to India's and Pakistan's independence had taken on the character of a civil war. 10 He typically also preferred it to the negotiated contract of partition, which has resulted in the repeated staging of this frustrated civil war in genocidal forms of religious violence...

..., but such preponderance—what we might call a geographic universalism—belies divergent instantiations. Studies of these phenomena in North America or Europe are assumed to have nonlocal relevance, yet from the vantage point of mainstream political theory, conceptual work on, for instance, democracy in India, secularism...

... article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). settler colonialism Zionism Palestine India citizenship In 2018, a new law was written into Israel's lawbooks. Titled “Israel—The Nation State of the Jewish People,” this basic law enshrines Jewish-Israeli...

...Mahdi Amel; Ziad Kiblawi 20. Said, Orientalism , 154 ; Marx, “The British Rule in India,” 320 . 21. Said, Orientalism , 154 ; Said, al-Istishrāq , 171 . 22. Said, Orientalism , 155–7 ; Said, al-Istishrāq , 172–73 . 23. I translate “al-jadīd” (the new) as “new...

... of the title and the traditions of oaths and gifts was in part a reflection of his singular personality, but it was also the effect of a time out of joint. His father, Sayyid Alawi, was born in the mid-eighteenth century in Tarim, Hadhramawt, in southern Arabia, and he migrated to a part of India's Malabar...

... 370 के उन्मूलन ने "कश्मीर को प्रभावी रूप से एक राज्य से केंद्र-साशित प्रदेश बना दिया है"; अनुच्छेद 35A के उन्मूलन ने "कश्मीरियों को अपने ही घर में खिदमतगार बना दिया है।" Arundhati Roy, “India: Intimations of an Ending. The Rise of Modi and the Hindu Far Right,” नेशन, नवंबर 22, 2019, www.thenation.com...

... “rather obscure” activities in India, Istanbul, and Russia, from the ideas that he was secretly a Freemason, a freethinking atheist, or a dissimulating elitist, to the undecidability between the Orientalist presumption that al-Afghānī only spoke honestly about Islam when he confessed its shortcomings...