Western policymakers, political activists and academics alike see patronage as the chief
enemy of open, democratic societies. Patronage, for them, is a corrupting force, a hallmark of …

This article is the third and last in a series of three surveying research on Hindutva (Hindu
nationalism or political Hinduism), focusing on praxis: processes by which hindutva is …

Patrons, big-men, brokers and fixers who mediate access to the state or the market inhabit
complex, and often contradictory, moral spaces that awkwardly straddle reciprocity and …

What are the new characteristics of Hindu nationalism—now in a phase when Hindutva
logics are percolating into various local practices, in India and in diaspora, and now that the …

Indian news channels and headlines meticulously cover ongoing legal suits seeking the
'restitution'of the Gyanvapi mosque in Banaras (Varanasi) to Hindus, with the site dubbed …

BACKGROUND The main protagonists of the story we are going to tell are: members of the
Yadav caste and their main political party the 'Samajwadi Party', and members of the Muslim …

ABSTRACT Following the Indian Supreme Court's verdict allowing the construction of a Rām
Mandir at the site of the former Babri Masjid in 2019, Hindu nationalists have put renewed …