The 2014 election campaign of the BJP was unprecedented not only because, for the first
time, a Chief Minister was the prime ministerial candidate of one of the national parties in the …

Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal
appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialized yet universal claims have been finding …

This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls' madrasa
in India. Highlighting the ambiguities between the students' espousal of madrasa norms and …

Conversion is rarely an individual decision in India. Since time immemorial–aside from
personal spiritual choices such as that made by Emperor Ashoka (273–237) in favor of …

The past few years in India have seen an increase in coordinated vigilante violence by right
wing groups on issues such as gaukashi (cow slaughter). This has led to the mob lynching …

The target of saffron terror is not the Muslim community, but" secular nationalism". The
ideology of secular nationalism, with its inclusivity and pluralistic vision—which includes …

Indian secularists compound difficulties for the emergence of a genuinely secular society by
relying on an exclusively constitutional rather than a dialogical approach to settle India's …

Gramsci's theory of common sense is a metanarrative that can be used to explain both
religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci's perspective and how his …

I welcome Ingold's (2014) intervention “That Is Enough about Ethnography,” which is
connected to his two earlier publications (2008a, 2008b) as well as a sequel that appeared …

In the decade since 9/11, the 'waron terror'has been framed in mainstream global media
discourses predominantly as a conflict between medievalist Islamic terrorists and the …