Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led
by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious …

In Lebanon, religious parties such as Hezbollah play a critical role in providing health care,
food, poverty relief, and other social welfare services alongside or in the absence of …

Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in
state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights …

Taking cognisance of the lack of studies on leadership in modern India, this book explores
how leadership is practiced in the Indian context, examining this across varied domains …

Is it possible to use comparative methods to “provincialize Eu-rope”? Recent debates in
several disciplines have made it abundantly clear that comparison, as a perspective and a …

The chapter examines how Hindu nationalist social service organizations, specifically the
Deseeya Seva Bharathi (DSB), reconfigured the religious conception of 'seva'to advance the …

In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting
political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous …

This chapter tries to take small steps towards the larger project of understanding the larger
gendered history and context in and through which such women have been enabled to …

This article discusses how members of marginalized groups in the Indian state of Gujarat
make sense of hegemonic discourses about national development in light of their own …

Sustained advocacy by the indigenous people and a coalition of civil society organizations
led the government to pass the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers …