The phrase ‘batenge toh katenge’ is a call to violence, not a call for unity, and therefore needs to be understood in terms of how rabid Hindu nationalism is covered and investigated in Canada.
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Without a shared understanding of the pro-Khalistan issue between Canada and India, the relationship between the two countries is likely to remain strained.
Modi’s appointed experts have helped craft a narrative that combines India’s technological advancement with Hindu nationalism.
The ruling BJP failed to see that those who had not benefited from the country’s rapid economic growth were deeply unhappy.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was formed in 1925 to unite Hindus. Today, its far-right nationalist ideology has gone mainstream thanks to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
On today’s Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast, political scientist Sikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta explain how cinema and social media in India may be helping to sway voters.
New research examines the organisational reasons why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has been so successful at winning elections since 2014.
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
Modi is running for his third consecutive term of office, but many believe he plans to remain in power indefinitely.
The Ram temple, built on the site of a destroyed mosque, could be used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party to mobilise his Hindu nationalist supporters ahead of the elections.
This announcement by U.S. authorities could have potential ramifications for Indian politics, both at home and abroad, and could spur separatist activities in the Sikh diaspora.
The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language – and reopens some old wounds.
The move to rename India as ‘Bharat’ is part of a push by the Hindu nationalist right to create an ideologically pure state that in reality never existed.
A controversial low-budget Indian feature film about a discredited anti-Muslim conspiracy theory has been causing a political storm, going all the way to India’s Supreme Court.
The Biden administration is courting Indian leader Narendra Modi in part to deter China’s rise. But India’s decline in democracy could complicate relations.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition politicians are courting the diaspora in the run-up to next year’s elections in India. What role does the diaspora play in Indian politics?
While the two incidents in Markham may not be directly linked to extremist groups, they have occurred within a global ecosystem of Islamophobia.
What are the two sides seeking from Albanese’s visit, and what does it mean for Australia-India relations?
This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
A scholar on South Asian affairs traces the growth of Hindu nationalism, started by an atheist anti-colonial revolutionary, to the one adopted under Modi’s government.
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York
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Associate Professor, International Politics, Adelaide University
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Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in South Asian History, Keele University
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Reader, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Associate Professor, Department of Humanity and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Senior Lecturer in the department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University
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PhD Candidate, Curtin University
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Professor Emerita, Department of Gender Studies, University of Victoria
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Dean of Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology
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PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Western Australia