... is the significance of this movement as a point of resistance against authoritarian Hindu nationalism? What does it mean for the future of Indian democracy? Citizenship Amendment Act India Hindu nationalism A G A I N S T the D A Y Partha Chatterjee The State of Exception Goes Viral When, in May 2019, Narendra...

... for Hindi against the claims of Urdu had already been won. The identification of the Hindi lan- guage with the idea of a homogeneously ‘‘Hindu’’ nation had been decisively established. For some decades, the rapid...

... capitalism as they have circulated in American critical race and queer studies. There is an urgency for this argument with respect to the Indian context, where the rise of autocratic Hindu nationalism is being waged in the terms of upper caste Brahminism and extractive capitalism. This project of Hindu...

...:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198063803.001.0001 . Sharma Jyotirmaya . 2003 . Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism . New Delhi : Viking . Sharma Jyotirmaya . 2007 . Terrifying Vision: M. S. Golwalkar, the RSS, and India . New Delhi : Penguin . Sinha Mrinalini...

... intertwined—to the nationalist question: How was India to be con- stituted as a nation? In the narrative emphasized at institutions like the Gurukul Kangri, ancient India was characterized by a civilizational Hindu- ism, one sustained by an ashram system. This Hinduism was already na- tional, and yet...

..., establish the notion of India as a Hindu Homeland or a Hindu nation to which the BJP is doctrinally committed. The NRC would create the occasion to speak of Muslims as a threat to the nation by highlighting their links with their co-religionists outside the nation s borders. Since the population...

... and Hoogly. Yet, as novelist and prose writer, he imaginatively defined Indian modernity, even as he dueled his way through a number of religious controversies in order to suggest a doctrinal basis for a neo-Hindu nationalism...

... a national blow to the incum- bent Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with some surprises in state-level political shifts. In South Africa, the coalition of forces represent- ing liberation from apartheid received a strong mandate to continue govern- 40 Sharad Chari ing, despite...

... with the ensuing protests, it registers a part of the global trend of offensives against educational institutions. From India, Greece, Hungary, and Poland to France, Brazil, and the United States, universities have come under increasing pressure and at times frontal assault. Invoking the sanctity of the Hindu...

... the community against outside influence, aspire for a better material life, or both. Significantly, it was the Hindu radical nationalists who managed to do developmental work among indigenous (tribal) communities, while mobiliz- ing Bengali Hindu settlers to the cause of a larger Hindu nation (Rajkhowa, Phukan...

... development. Present at the core of the complicities between representations of history and ruses of progress, they shape and suture militant agendas of militarist nationalism, from the muscular peacekeeping of George Bush, to celebra- tions of the Hindu and the Islamic bomb in India and Pakistan...

... self-sufficiency, national defense, and industrial development. One could describe this as a cultural difference, but it is not culture in the sense of being a product of some ancient strain of Hindu jurisprudence. Or to put...

...-class Hindu framework of recognition from the family and the nation-state. The Indian nation-state occupies and terrorizes people in Kashmir and many of the North-Eastern tribal communities. Surely, the North-Eastern communities are not seeking inclusion or recognition but rather seeking freedom from...

...Theodore Ropp The Bright Passage . By Hindus Maurice . New York : Doubleday and Co. , 1947 . Pp. xv , 370 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 127 is William Zukerman s impressive account of the stubborn effort of decent people in German...

..., seeking its way between the figures of Western authority and the demands of Indian nationalism.  Friday [October Ganesh Chhatri a man of education met on the road to Kharora [village]. He was going to Raipur [town] with some other men, as he saw me, he thinking me that I was a Hindu began...

... and the United States] are now poised to cooperate in counter-terrorism efforts. It must be stressed this is not a Christian-Jewish-Hindu coalition gearing up against Islam. Rather it is an effort by civilized, democratic nations to combat terrorism by extremists Bhaskar Dasgupta, ‘‘Brajesh...

.... By Maurice Hindus. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1947. Pp. xv, 370. $3.00. Like all of Maurice Hindus s books, Bright Passage is a warm, rich work. Of all the American correspondents working in eastern Europe, Hindus is one of the most understanding, particularly of the peasants, whose life is the foundation...

... of Swaraj, the Muslim League as a separate organization of Muslims came to be formed. The liberals had stressed the neces­ sity for creating a common national political platform which would bring the Hindus and the Muslims together in a single and secularlyoriented political organization. The birth...

... will be an alien in his country and every Hindu in Pakistan will be an alien there. Pakistan may welcome this, but a modem democratic nation like India can never accept such an undemocratic, reactionary and obscurantist solution. It will be the repudiation of our political principles, nullifying 14 The South...

... in their country of origin in that year. Meanwhile, the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam in August 2019, to determine citizenship of suspicious residents of this state in India s Northeast, has led to the exclusion of 1.9 million people, both Hindus and Muslims, already residing...