Since its inception in the early 20th century, Hindutva has revolved its exclusionary politics around the idea of India as the unequivocal terrestrial center of Hindu civilization. This notion was traced by its first ideologues… Read More »Hindutva Archaeology: The making of fraudulent past in India
India seems to be on a trajectory of positive economic growth over the last two decades and is now the fifth largest economy globally. The verdict on what this growth has meant for people’s lives… Read More »Trends in Poverty, Inequality and Human Development in India: 2004 to 2024
In spite of several decades of impressive economic growth, labour across all sectors in India are overwhelmingly informalised, precarious, overworked and low paid. Temporary migrants from the countryside dominate low-end jobs and they have few… Read More »Economic Growth without Inclusion: Structural Labour Discrimination in India
This session looks at Indian law and politics through the feminist lens. It addresses past and present challenges for gender equality and shows how Indian women’s rights activists, feminist lawyers and women’s groups have addressed… Read More »Feminist Perspectives on Indian Law and Politics
As India’s general election results reverberate around the world, The Incarcerations offers a sweeping, searing investigation into the rise of Indian fascism, cyber warfare and tech surveillance versus minority activism and resistance. Alpa Shah exposes… Read More »The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India
In conversation with Alessandra Consolaro (University of Turin)
Movements of self-assertion by marginalised communities, through art, film, music or performance, often address the ‘tropes of unsayability’ (Gilroy 1993) produced in the context of exploitation by transforming relations of visibility / invisibility, sayability /… Read More »That which cannot be spoken
Worldwide, India under the rule of Narendra Modi, the BJP, and their Hindutva project since 2014 is seen as a classic case of ‘democratic backsliding’, authoritarianism and electoral autocracy, with repression of dissenters, Muslims and… Read More »“Too much democracy”: Popular Sovereignty in Contemporary India
As the Indian government has embarked on a policy of majoritarian Hindu nationalism over the past decade, verbal assaults against religious minorities, and Muslims specifically, have risen steeply. So-called hate speeches against Muslims have ranged… Read More »Phantom Law: Hate Speech, Digital Frontiers, and the Re-interpretation of Criminal Law in Nationalist India