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UP’s syncretic warrior cults facing Hindutva challenge

Be it the attack on the Gogamedi shrine in the Hanumangarh district of northern Rajasthan or the Neja Mela in the Sambhal district of western Uttar Pradesh, Hindutva’s systemic attack on India’s syncretic traditions, past and present, reveals its rigid and Brahmanical ideological orientation: imposition of a strictly hierarchical, exclusionary and structured notion of faith and practice

The books that Mattered to India’s Independent Publishers in 2016

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The Trolling of Mohammad Shami or Tina Dabi

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“No Hindu Rashtra”: Nayantara Sahgal

The following statement from Nayantara Sahgal was read out...

The social foundations of the Latin American new right

The new right in Latin America has an unprecedented...

JNU VC Overrules Academic Council & Pushes through Anti-social Justice Policies

  First, here is the statement issued by 20 faculty...

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