The Hindu nationalist party overcame West Bengal’s traiditional pluralism with its message of ‘Hindus under threat’.
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Missing from the coverage of Kashmir is the story of Kashmiris as Indigenous Peoples. Their territory has been under multiple occupations since 1947 and they face intensive repression.
Modi has resorted to overtly Islamophobic language as he looks to secure a third term in office.
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.
Narendra Modi looks set to win a third term in power. One of his strategies for success is to exploit the country’s religious differences.
Over the past decade, I have documented the erosion of India’s once robustly democratic legal system as part of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘authoritarian playbook’
Modi is running for his third consecutive term of office, but many believe he plans to remain in power indefinitely.
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.
Seventy five years after his killing, Gandhi’s image is under scrutiny, but the Indian government likes to use it for political gain.
Tensions between Hindus and Muslims have been growing in Leicester for months. The city’s leadership needs to take the time to understand why.
Leena Manimekalai’s film Kaali has drawn controversy and criticism, but like her other films, it highlights the inequalities and discrimination many continue to face.
Modi and the political party he represents are adherents of Hindutva, an ideology. It is fundamentally different from the faith, Hinduism.
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A panel of academic experts assess Narendra Modi's victory in the final episode of our India Tomorrow series.
India’s elections are not about policy issues. Instead, they have zeroed in on the leadership of Narendra Modi and, through him, the legitimacy of Hinduness as India’s new dominant ideology.
Text books are being rewritten and the history of caste in India questioned as ‘decolonisation’ has become the rhetoric of militant nationalism.
This is a transcript of part two of The Anthill’s podcast series, India Tomorrow, on the politics of Hindu natonalism.
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The second part of this series from The Anthill podcast looks at the trajectories of Hindu nationalism in India.
The bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Binyamin Netanyahu is rooted in the admiration of generations of Hindu nationalists for Israel.
The recent controversy, sloganeering and protests about Sabarimala temple in the Indian state of Kerala obscure the way that the media have used stereotypes of women and caste again and again.
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York
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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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Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor, Department of Humanity and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Professor, Feminist Studies Founding Co-Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Host of The Anthill Podcast, The Conversation
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