‘Sangharsh’ is a documentary made by Nicolas Jaoul, a French anthropologist, who provides a grassroots glimpse into Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh. Shot in the late 1990s just after the BSP lost political power and… Read More »Documentary Screening – Sangharsh – Times of Strife

At the time of writing this abstract, the results of the Indian elections are not known. However, a number of theories have been developed to explain recent state and general elections. Some have to do… Read More »Decoding the Results of the Indian General Elections 2024

Whether in Gramsci’s influential writings on the Southern Question and on ‘subalterns’ in Italy or in Laclau’s account of the rise of populism in Latin America, there is a materialist background: the unrootedness of large… Read More »The Endless Transition and the Trajectories of Indian Authoritarian Populism

The ten years of the Modi regime obviously represents a new turn in the history of postcolonial India. But how do we understand it historically? In what way the BJP government transformed the Indian polity… Read More »Democratic Voices in Naya Bharat

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