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...Vijay Prashad 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Vijay Prashad How the Hindus Became Jews: American Racism after 9/11 In November 2001, I traveled to Washington, DC, for the second Annual South Asian Literary...

... and mem­ ories from which they were extracted for inclusion in Deadline Delayed. Arthur B. Ferguson. The Bright Passage. 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...

...Ratna Kapur This article describes the competing models of secularism that have been debated and contested in postcolonial India. I focus on the constitutional legal discourse and judicial pronouncements on the meaning of secularism in India and on the increasing influence of the Hindu Right...

... of conceiving the body as hived off from questions of land rights, economic autonomy, and historically contingent iterations of caste categories and relations. This use of caste capitalism contributes to countermanding Hindu nationalist deployments of homonationalist rhetoric that rely on the ahistoricity...

..., the Hindu Bengalis from the Indian subcontinent. In Lahiri's fiction, death in the adopted land becomes a site for fixing and rooting the migrant into his or her adopted country, a claim final and irrefutable. The deeply personal nature of her strokes brings our attention back to the domestic and quotidian...

... 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? Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Citizenship Amendment Act India Hindu nationalism A G A I N S T the D A Y Partha Chatterjee The State...

... THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / Fall 2001 100:4 / sheet 203 of 226 democracy. Most of Indian tort law was devel- oped after the British colonization. Yet Hindu law in its various incarnations and evolutions...

...Milind Wakankar 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Milind Wakankar The Moment of Criticism in Indian Nationalist Thought: Ramchandra Shukla and the Poetics of a Hindi Responsibility Why was the moment of criticism in Hindu nationalist...

... uttering the word talaq thrice to abandon their wives) has been crim- inalized and enacted into law by Parliament. The Supreme Court of India has cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at a disputed site where a mosque had been destroyed by Hindu zealots to claim the land for a Hindu temple...

.... 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...

... were the poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan, and the gurukuls (school-ashrams) set up by the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reformist organization. Most famous were the Gandhian ashrams. In South Africa, Gandhi...

.... In [village] B the Hindus raised this question: you Christians say that Jesus is Almighty Savior of all, why then does he not draw all Hindus and all castes to His sect and give them salvation? My answer: Sup- pose that among your grown up children some are rascals and murder someone...

... against whom the fast was directed. In short, that person would be accounted guilty of murder, and murder for a genuine Hindu ranks first in the catalogue of sins. Such a use of the hunger-strike is indeed in India only a paragraph in the larger chapter of self-inflicted injury to secure justice...

... of colonial masters. One result was the consolidation of a religious identity deemed ‘‘Hindu itself created out of a welter of overlap- ping but also noncongruent faiths and practices present in the territorial jurisdiction...

... a correspondingly profound difference. Here and there one may descry across the plain vast pinnacles of masonry, not less sombre and for­ bidding than the mountains themselves. Draw near and look more closely at one of these Hindu temples. Pass with us at dawn through the infinitely picturesque streets of a Hindu...

... 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...

... Roy had created a social conscience that was profoundly moved by the plight of the socially underprivileged in Indian society. The social reformers addressed themselves to the task of refashioning Hindu society in a new image, and this social awareness was a part of the liberal temperament in India...

...), and The Mimic Men (1967) which have earned him his impressive list of awards and honors.2 An expatriate residing and publishing in England, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was bom in Chaguanas, Trinidad, in 1932 to Hindu parents. His Brahmin heritage, according to his own account Harriet Blodgett teaches English...

... left the subcontinent in 1947 in a hurried man- ner, exactly 190 years after the Battle of Plassey, and after eighty-nine years of direct rule in the name of British monarchy, two separate states India and Pakistan emerged out of partition, ostensibly along religious lines, the former being a Hindu...

... classes and groups in later Hindu society. See A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India (London, 1956), pp. 147-148; and J. H. Hutton, Caste In India (3rd ed.; Oxford, 1961), passim. Cedric Dover, Half-Caste (London, 1937), p. 113; Owen Snell, AngloIndians and Their Future (Bombay, 1944), p. 10. 3...