...Alexandra Lynn Barron Abstract While many critics have pointed out how Fire's (1996) reception reveais much about the Hindutva agenda of fundamentalists and their use of women as symbols for the nation, no one has traced the critique of fundamentalism embedded in the film itself in the haunting...

... of the growing politics of casteism and Brahmanical supremacy in India, locating and reassessing herself in the midst of Trump’s hardened propagation of white privilege in the United States and Modi’s Hindutva, both emanating a politics rooted in racialization, exploitation, and marginalization of the other...

... with the empirical pot around their neck” (Guru 2002 : 5003). Even in our classroom in the 1990s, with casteist, Hindutva politics raging around us, there was no acknowledgment that Ambedkar’s arguments, made in the 1930s, foregrounded caste violence well before Dumont and without relativizing inequality as Dumont...

..., Sumar's story packs a more powerful punch. Perhaps there are reasons for this. Sumar is an independent filmmaker and thus does not have to deal with Bombay cinema's politics of representation, which is influenced by a Hindutva politics (Vasudevan 1996;Chowdhry 2000; Mishra 2002), a politics that likely...

... Times interview, thanks to increasing Hindutva violence spurred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, these questions are as urgent today as they were a century ago when the Dalit scholar Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar contested Mahatma Gandhi’s implicit support for Brahmin caste-dominance...

... or Hindutva identity, has paralleled India's economic liberalization policy.15 Its constituency includes an urban Hindu middle class and wealthy NRls desiring to reconnect with their birthplace through the idea of a glorious Hindu past (Mishra 2004, 30-31). The strong assertion of a Hindustani identity...

... and Hindutva ultranationalism, drawing from the struggles of our ancestors. Our knowledge systems are kept alive through singers, storytellers, and family who, in their oration and singing, preserve and recreate their community’s idea of itself. The essential quality and strength of oral traditions lie...