Ideology

How Hindutva Parivar’s ‘ideological ancestors’ supported British, Muslim League against Indians...

By Subhash Gatade Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. —Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1 , 1862 To the living we owe respect, but to...

All who speak against Modi and Hindutva  ideology are either being killed...

By THE HINDU BUREAU “Activists, writers and journalists who speak against the Union government, its ideology and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are either being killed...

How Hindu Iconography Became an Extension of Right-Wing Nationalism (Hyperallergic)

Ubiquitous imagery of aggressive, hypermasculine deities across India is a chilling tool of the Hindu right. By Nadia Nooreyezdan  In the weeks leading up to the...

How ‘decolonial Hindutva’ marries nativist politics with left-wing vocabulary (Scroll)

Postcolonial populists are dressing up contemporary authoritarian politics as a project of decolonial liberation. By Kira Huju Over the past few years of working as a...

Inventing Hindu supremacy (aeon)

By Mihir Dalal To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the ideas of the Hindu Right’s greatest ideologue, the world of British...

A Deeper State Vigilantism and surveillance in Modi’s Gujarat (Caravan Magazine)

By CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT THE NOTION OF a “deep state”—which has been mostly used, in South Asia, about Pakistan—refers to a political system where power is ultimately...