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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
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Cultural Nationalism is Nothing but Rogue Nationalism pitting ‘Us’ against the “Other”
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Perumal Murugan’s Resurrected as HC Judgement Comforts a Wilted Heart
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