Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Defending Sri Aurobindo's Legacy: Rajiv Malhotra & Manogna Sastry on Ken... youtu.be/HaQDV62FGTY?si… via @YouTube
https://x.com/stargateRdrr/status/1839262065799688378?t=9W-5xvIeuY3T-aCFBkXY4A&s=19
There are other important articles too like this one about Chaturvarnas. It was the first article Aurobindo wrote in Karmyogin. The article took the concept of Varna beyond the orthodox moribund view of it.
https://x.com/KNVR2023/status/1839155163774464004?t=7Syt7bmz1ff0T3r2FoWyMg&s=19
[PDF] The holism of prefigurative politics
B Bonfert - Rethinking prefiguration
We live in a time of multiple intersecting crises that fuel disillusionment with the capitalist system and institutions. In front of this backdrop, local efforts to create emancipatory and democratic alternatives independent of market and state have …
[PDF] Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers
P Gerard, W Theisen, T Weninger, K Lerman - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13064, 2024
Othering, the act of portraying outgroups as fundamentally different from the ingroup, often escalates into framing them as existential threats--fueling intergroup conflict and justifying exclusion and violence. These dynamics are alarmingly pervasive …
8. Truth Enflesh: An Apologia for Embodied Presence
AV Meloottu, L Pachuau - Christians and Christianity in India Today: Historical …, 2024
… In developing an apologetic for embodied presence, I will outline the history of Christianity in India, underlining key developments and highlighting the contextual and contemporary challenges for apologetics in India in the wake of the rise of …
[PDF] Book Review: India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa by King Kenneth and Meera Venkatachalam
M Karmwar, Abhinav - 2024
Nye’s soft power, which also emphasises western appeal and attraction, largely from western perspective, seems inadequate. This necessitates reconsidering soft power and international relations generally and India–Africa relations in particular. Soft …
Re-Writing Violence and Victimhood: Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess
HA Lokhande - Representations of Dalit Protagonists: Indian English …, 2024
The chapter examines how the narrative of The White Tiger by an upper caste Aravind Adiga uses violence as a narrative structure to carve the lower caste personality and delineate the struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed. It …
[PDF] EMPOWERMENT AND NATION-BUILDING: MADHAV SADASHIV GOLWALKAR'S PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA
R Chakraborty - 2024
This paper explores Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar’s perspectives on women's empowerment in post-independence India, emphasizing their role in nation-building. Despite the constitutional provisions that promote gender equality and women’s …
Caste, Dalits and the BJP's Social Engineering
H Wankhede - Communities as Vote Banks
… Political pandits understood that the SP-BSP-Congress alliance will be a formidable challenge to Hindutva politics, especially in UP, where the BJP won 71 parliamentary seats in the last general elections. Therefore, if the BJP has to repeat …
Representations and Discursive Formations of Caste: A Theoretical Framework
HA Lokhande - Representations of Dalit Protagonists: Indian English …, 2024
… He started a periodical in Marathi called Prabodhan (Enlightening) in 1921 to present a version of Bahujan Hindutva ie Hindutva of the … He asserted the need to reform such a narrow concept of Brahmin Hindutva and strive for the cause of the …
Why Does a Border Dispute Exacerbate? Analyzing the India–Nepalese Escalation Over Kalapani Through Securitization Theory
A Sharma - Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2024
Kalapani is a strategic tri-junction valley between India, China, and Nepal, and is currently a territory of India. It consists of the Lipulekh pass, which connects to Tibet. The Kalapani area remains non-demarcated and disputed between India and Nepal …
[PDF] The Role of the McMahon, Radcliffe and Durand Lines in Shaping Regional Security Complexes in South Asia: An Assessment
SK Aryal, MJ Pulami - The International Spectator, 2024
An examination of the McMahon Line, Radcliffe Line and Durand Line highlights their role as agents shaping regional security complexes in South Asia. By unravelling the intricate interplay of historical and rising populist narratives, evolving …
[PDF] The Distributed Sovereignty of Fascist Violence
R Varman
… Hindutva casts Muslims as harmful to the interests of the nation. Such branding is used to humiliate Muslims as dishonest or insincere Indians and to cast them outside the domain of right-bearing citizenship. Branding some people as traitors …
[PDF] Audrey Truschke
S Mukhopadhyay, M Sastry
… A member of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies,4 she is a key driver in the polemical Hindutva Harassment Field Manual, which claims to be “a resource guide” to help deal with “Hindutva attack.”A popular figure in the Left-Liberal literary scene …
[PDF] Fascism, neo-fascism and similar expressions
S Hira
From 10-11 September 2024, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela organized an international conference on fascism, neo-fascism and similar expressions. The addition" similar expression" is a clever articulation of the complexity of dealing with …
[PDF] a metropolitan region that is emblematic of India's aspirations and contradictions.
S Chakravorty, N Sircar
… Our initial analysis suggested that the BJP sought to nationalize the Delhi election using its well-established communal Hindutva strategy, whereas the AAP stayed steadfastly local and focused on their well-established model of governance and …
[PDF] Intersectionality and Women Academics in Indian Higher Education
G Khanna, M Mukherjee - Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress, 2024
Globally, women's representation in higher education has increased rapidly, leading to a dramatic rise in female labor force participation. In India, despite achieving gender parity in access to higher education, progress in closing gender gaps in the …
[PDF] Hindutva Under the Modi Regime: Genesis, Resurgence and Implications for Regional and Global Peace and Security
BA Khan - Global Strategic Pulse: CISSS Journal of Geopolitical & …, 2024
… Hindutva is a political ideology that advocates supremacy of … of Hindutva and its manifestation under the Narendra Modi-led government and to evaluate its impact on regional and international peace and security. Additionally, the research …
Hindu Nationalism, the BJP, Bollywood and Bombay Dons.
WH Sidhu, S Rushmeen - International Policy Digest, 2024
… This trend of promoting a pro-Hindutva agenda through cinema is part of a broader strategy where India's cultural landscape becomes a battleground for ideological dominance. The BJP's alliance with the country's billionaire class is …
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India By Christophe Jaffrelot. London: Hurst (dist. Oxford University Press), 2024. 416 pages. Hardback,£ 30.00 GBP, ISBN …
PS Gill - International Journal of Asian Studies, 2024
… Jaffrelot argues that Modi strategically utilised the Hindutva ideology to consolidate his political base, as seen in his emphasis on … Narendra Modi’s ascent to power, emphasising his strategic utilisation of Hindutva ideology to solidify …
[PDF] Sanskrit and Philology: Reading Texts and Constructing History
P Olivelle, KN Choubey, AB Yelery, A Farooqui…
The Book Review is a non-political, ideologically non-partisan journal which tries to reflect all shades of intellectual opinions and ideas. The views of the reviewers and authors writing for the journal are their own. All reviews and articles published in The …
[PDF] The affective economy of democracy: Women's adverse incorporation in party politics in Dehradun, North India
T Jakimow - HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2024
… The event sought to convey a message of unity under the Hindutva umbrella, with Dalit voters particularly targeted. Facing discrimination and harassment under BJP governments, unsurprisingly Dalits are least likely to lend the party their support …
Following Other's Religion and the Problem of 'Liminal'Identity: An Eco-Religious Study of the Bhumij Tribe of Bengal
S Jana, U Jana - A Pragmatic Approach to Religion And Sustainability, 2024
… Though there are a few similarities between the tribal religious system and the Hindu religion in terms of nature-oriented religion, the practitioners of ‘Hindutva’ overlooked the differences and expressed their concern about not accepting tribes …
Building Dharmic* Solidarity to Expand the Discourse about Religious Diversity in US Higher Education
S Edwards, NK Khalsa-Baker, F Hsu/Chhî, A Shipman… - Equity & Excellence in …, 2024
… ideology – namely, Hindu nationalism (aka, Hindutva) – which we have noticed many Hindu … We do not deny this point, we denouce Hindutva violence, and we seek to steer students … up about it does not mean they support Hindutva violence …
[PDF] REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND THE STATE IN KERALA
J Devika - QUERYING CHILDHOOD
This chapter attempts a preliminary historical sketch of the regimes of childhood in Malayali society–by regimes of childhood, I mean the specific, historically shaped network of rules, norms, ideas, practices, procedures, and institutions that implicitly …
Civic Place Literacies: Tracing Urban Migrant Girls' Democratic Meaning‐Making Through Virtual Transnational Practitioner Research
AG Thakurta - Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Historically marginalized youth shape public life through civic literacies that are rooted in their identities and experiences with systemic injustices. Literacy scholarship has accordingly traced how practitioner inquiry, a participatory approach …
[PDF] Metamorphosis of Gaṇeśas
A BANDYOPADHYAY, D BANDYOPADHYAY…
… We, the adherents of the monolithic-homogeneous Hindutva campaign, are writing to you once again this time to deal with another unaddressed area that has taken away our precious night’s sleep from us, namely the worship of Gaṇeśa/Vināyaka/Gaṇapati …
10 India's multi-platform election campaigns for voter mobilization
S Mahapatra - Elections and Social Networks around the World, 2024
… org) presents its hard-line position on national security combined with Hindutva (ethno-religious nationalism). The INC’s website (inc. in) … In terms of visual cues, Modi’s stylistic gestures and expressions against the backdrop of the Indian flag and the saffron …
[PDF] ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN INDIAN POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: A STUDY OF CORPUS LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL NARRATIVE ON TWITTER …
K Pandey, R Joshi, M Ganjoo - 2024
This study examines the political communication strategies applied during the Karnataka Assembly elections on May 23, 2023, with a specific focus on the Twitter (now X) as a platform. The Karnataka Assembly elections held notable importance for the …
Media and Citizenship in India: Heteronomy and Autonomy in the Indian Journalistic Field
M Ravikumar, J Downey, N Bhargav, D Deb… - Journalism Studies, 2024
Since 2014, India has experienced a shift towards a new phase of democracy, often described as an “ethnic democracy.” Political theorists argue that this phase promotes a Hindu conception of the nation, contrasting with the secularism …
Theorising universality in the modern world-system: the abstract, the concrete, and the case of Botswana
JC Mueller - Third World Quarterly, 2024
There are long-standing disagreements across the humanities and social sciences regarding the relevance and necessity of using the concept of ‘universality’. The debate is often framed as a competition between acknowledging particularities of …
