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The Politics of Race, Nationhood and Hindu Nationalism: The Case of Gujarat Riots of 2002
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The authors argue that dominant (Hindus) nationalism is linked to the ideas of race and has its roots in Brahminical notions of Aryanism and colonial racism, and that social and cultural cleavages propagated by Hindu nationalists have their origins in race theory that accommodates purity, lineage, classification and hierarchy as part of the democratic discourses that pervade the modern nation-state.About:
This article is published in Asian Journal of Social Science.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hindu nationalism & Hindu studies.read more
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Anatomy of human rights violations at the Indo-Bangladesh borderlands
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the factors affecting the violations of human rights at the borderlands between Bangladesh and India and shed a new light on the question: What are the main reasons behind...
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Populism, authoritarianism, and charismatic-plebiscitary leadership in contemporary Asia: a comparative perspective from India and Myanmar
D B Subedi,Alan Scott +1 more
TL;DR: The revived interest in new populism and/or authoritarian styles of leadership has been a response to developments, initially in Europe, from the late 1980s on, one aspect of which has b...
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Race-making, religion and rights in the post-colony: unmasking the pathogen in assembling a Hindu nation
TL;DR: In this article , a socio-legal/post-colonization analysis of the Tablighi Jamaat, a global, quietest Islamic movement, during the Covid pandemic is presented.
Race-making, religion and rights in the post-colony: unmasking the pathogen in assembling a Hindu nation
TL;DR: In this paper , a socio-legal/post-colonization analysis of the Tablighi Jamaat, a global, quietest Islamic movement, during the Covid pandemic is presented.