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[PDF] Karmayoga Analysed through Spinoza's Perspective on 'Eternity'and Bergson's 'Élan Vital'
SR Bhandari - OUSL Journal, 2023
… The book is an integral part of the epic The Mahabharata written in Sanskrit. The date of composition and the authorship of the Bhagavad … Therefore, yoga means yoking together and controlling our passions, which ultimately opens the passage …
Ibsen in the Decolonised South Asian Theatre
S Huq, S Mukherjee - 2023
This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen’s plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation. The concerns addressed in this collection include politico-cultural engagements with …
[HTML] Speaking of the Xenophone
P Sundar - 2023
… The riots that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid by Hindutva forces in December 1992, and the bomb blasts that rocked the city a few months later, apparently orchestrated by the Dubai-based crime boss Dawood Ibrahim to Page …
[HTML] Listening, Loving, Longing
P Sundar - 2023
… Placing spoken accents in relation to other cinematic sounds and cinephilic song lyrics, the history of linguistic nationalism and Hindutva politics, and other filmic traditions besides Bombay cinema, I theorize language as sound and as a material …
(Re) visiting postcolonial ethno-spirituality in Mamang Dai's the Black Hill and Easterine Kire's Sky is My Father: a Naga Village Remembered
J Das - Asian Ethnicity, 2023
… Moreover, the issue of neo-liberalism and the contemporary awakening of Hindu nationalism in Indian politics become issues of concern for postcolonial thinkers like Arkotong Longkumer who endeavours to reassess and reframe the conventional …
[PDF] Rise of Terrorism in Indian Freedom Movement
R Ramanujam, S Nagaraj
The objective of the Terrorists was to free India from the clutches of the British yoke. They considered the British Government in India as an alien imposition based on force, fraud and deception. Their aim, therefore, was to remove the thorn of the …
Negotiating the Carceral Space: Reading Mercy Petitions of Political Prisoners in the Andamans
S Sarangi, AK Rath - Interventions, 2023
Following the Sepoy Mutiny (1857), a penal settlement in the Andamans started operating to accommodate mutiny and other prisoners, and a convict society devised by class, caste and religion gradually evolved in the Andaman Islands …
[HTML] Religion, Caste and Marginality: Reflections on the Indian Criminal Justice and Prison System
D Kalita - Poverty and Prejudice, 2023
… Under the current Hindutva regime, the distinct identities and socio-cultural practices of religious minorities, such as their rituals of prayer, food habits or choice of clothes, has been proscribed to such an extent that their very existence has come …
Secularism and Democracy: Symbiotically Linked Concepts
AB Saif - Secularism Under Siege: Revisiting the Indian Secular …, 2023
… They proclaim the intolerant, exclusive and divisive ideology of Hindutva should be the guiding … rooted in the majoritarian and communal concept of Hindutva. For them race and nation are the … It must be recalled that the architect of Hindutva …
[PDF] Special Issue Introduction: Critique, Postcritique and the Present Conjuncture
S Phelan, S Dawes, P Maeseele - Media Theory, 2023
How might we map the different horizons, questions, topics and concerns that come into view when we bring together the signifiers “critique”, “postcritique” and the “present conjuncture”? The canvas suggested by the question might seem impossibly broad …
Between the Two Mother India s: Normativity and the Home
JD Luther - Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture …, 2023
In this chapter I examine the home as a fundamental and crucial space for the production and operation of normativity. I read contra-norm acts by women that run into nationalist discourses that circumscribe the woman, nation, and mother as home …
[PDF] Women in the Sacred and the Profane in Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand (2018)
M MOUSSI - 2023
The Indian society is a kaleidoscope of cultures, beliefs and social customs. Geetanjali Shree in her Booker prize winning novel Tomb of Sand aims to convey these themes in a correlation to the concepts of women oppression and gender …
Invoking Mirabai: Elision and Illumination in the Global Study of Women Mystics
NM Martin - Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe
… are a number of such preeminent individuals within bhakti, recognized for their spiritual greatness and their ability to draw others into ever deeper experiences of divine love, whose lives are recounted across a wide range of hagiographic genres …
The Kabir Project: Using Transmedia Work to Disrupt Right-Wing Narratives of Othering
F Nizaruddin - Transmedia Selves, 2024
In contemporary India, right-wing Hindutva mobilizations produce violent narratives which mark minority communities, especially Muslims, as … offered by transmedia configurations to form a universe where right-wing narratives of hate such as that of …
Impediments in the Way of Secularism
S Shakir - Secularism Under Siege: Revisiting the Indian Secular …, 2023
… Therefore, exhortation to ditch this so-called pseudo-secularism, necessary for a Hindu to regain a sense of pride in his culture and a place of respect in the society, has proved to be a successful political plank of rightist Hindutva parties in the country. …
Secularism, Secularization and Human Rights
R Puniyani - Secularism Under Siege: Revisiting the Indian Secular …, 2023
… The talk of the Hindu nation, Hindutva came to the fore. The concept of duties started getting more prominence. The compromising practices of … With the rise of Hindutva in India the opposition to reservation is manly to retain the social …
Conversion: A Point of Confusion for Secularists and Others
HS Mishra - Secularism Under Siege: Revisiting the Indian Secular …, 2023
… While secularists insist that the state should protect the religious liberty of the people (conversion), Hindutva forces want a ban on conversion in India. The reason behind strong aversion towards religious conversion of Hindutva is that many …
A Critique of the Critics of Indian Secularism: A Study of Partha Chatterjee's 'Secularism and Toleration'
N Momin - Secularism Under Siege: Revisiting the Indian Secular …, 2023
… However, Chatterjee explains how this notion is contrary to the reality and that the ‘mature, and most formidable, statement of the new political conception of ‘Hindutva’is unlikely to pit itself against the idea of the secular state. In fact, for Chatterjee,“in its …
When My Brown Got Colored: Living through/in the Times of White and Brahmanical Supremacy
S Sathi - Meridians, 2023
This essay is a testimonial of the author’s experiences, memories, and reflections about becoming a person/woman of color, discovering, and unearthing the meanings of racialization, white privilege, and white supremacy in the contemporary …
Writing Castelessly: Brahminical Supremacy in Education, Feminist Knowledge, and Research
DD Costa - Meridians, 2023
… Islamophobic Hindutva feminists and learn to notice our continuities with her, then and now. … We must be able to see our proximity to seemingly distant Hindutva sisters when history makes … , Adivasi, Muslim women do not get to distance …
Sacred birthing tree vandalised
K Smith - Green Left Weekly, 2023
… the BJP upholds the violence of the RSS and advocates Hindutva hate: an anti-minority, anti-woman and islamophobic Hindu-supremacist ideology. Hindutva hate has led to an increase in verbal and physical assault against Muslims, women, the lGBtiQ …
Asian Christianity's Solidarity with the Marginalized
TTN Lim - Uncovering the Pearl: The Hidden Story of Christianity …, 2023
… The advances, however, also incurred attacks from Hindutva opponents seeking to preserve the pan-Indic sociocultural and religious sociality that extends privileges to members of upper varnas and jatis in the caste system. Christian support of …
The populist radical right, gendered enemy, and religion: Perspectives from South Asia since 2014
S Singh - The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia …, 2024
… The ideology of Hindutva is also shared by affiliate organizations, referred to as the Sangh … are recognized as the cultural repository of Hindutva, serving Hindu Rashtra (the Hindu nation), … This supports the assertion that the structuring …
[HTML] Religiously Conservative Parties and Women's Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India
A Chowdhury - 2023
… But paradoxically, this growth was most pronounced among women voting for the BJP, whoseideology of political Hinduism, or Hindutva, prescribes traditional gender roles for women. What explains the BJP’s success at engaging women despite its …
WHAT IS IT TO BE 'NATIONAL'?: EXAMINING NATIONAL (IN) SECURITY, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND ALTERNATE IMAGINATIONS IN INDIA
M Ashraf - Journal of Global Politics and Current Diplomacy, 2023
… however, to the secular, constitutional democratic state of India and the very idea of India is an aggressive Hindu nationalism or Hindutva. … Further, a monolithic cultural nationalism of Hindutva is contrary to the secular democratic essence of the …
[HTML] Dravidian Futurities: A Creative Process
M Murugesan - Arts, 2023
In this article, author and artist Meena Murugesan analyzes their creative process and research in the making of Dravidian Futurities, a multi-channel video installation with live performance. Methodologies of auto-ethnography, visual aesthetics …
The (Im) possibility of the 'Royal Road to Global Psychology'
P Bansal - Psychological Studies, 2023
… The impulse to develop Global Psychology (GP) is an integral part of the IP movement. Early contributors to this discourse are: Virgio … Indian psychology understands human nature as essentially human and draws attention to research on …
[PDF] Facing the backlash: what is fuelling anti-feminist and anti-democratic forces?
A Khan, E Tant, C Harper - 2023
Women and feminists all over the world are facing grave challenges and assaults on their freedoms. A global deterioration of progress on women’s rights is taking the shape of a coordinated and wellfunded backlash against gender equality, LGBTQI+ …
[PDF] A Preliminary Overview of “Wokeism”: Three Major Issues for IR Research
D Ayona
Recent political events have brought the word “woke” to the center of public and media attention. What began as a domestic issue in the US has begun to spread to other parts of the globe and become a heated topic of discussion. This commentary …
[HTML] Uniform Civil Code: Through the Lens of Feminism! Uniform Civil Code: Through the Lens of Feminism!
M Kaur
… Parties like the BJP consolidate Hindutva supporters in the interest of vote bank politics through the idea of UCC, which stimulates uniformity predicated on majoritarianism. While the concept of uniformity is inferred in myriad ways, its origins …
[HTML] A place for pastoral power: From the “government of souls” to “global struggles for souls”
B Savić - Political Geography, 2023
While research on geopolitical space and faith has drawn on Michel Foucault's work on power/knowledge, subjectivity, and strategy, little use has been made of his genealogies of Christian pastoral power. Arguing that Foucault's work on the …
Dalit Migrants: Assertion, Emancipation, and Social Change
AK Pankaj
Springer Series in Social Work and Social Change is a series of full-length monographs and contributed volumes on the state-of-the-art literature on social work and social change as well as globalization and social change, neoliberalism and …
[PDF] 'Patanjali Yoga Sutra'as a Testament to the Timeless Legacy of the Indian Knowledge System
NR Gopal - International Journal of New Media Studies …, 2023
… The core emphasis of this paper diversifies among tracing the historical and philosophical footprints of the Yoga Sutra to accentuating its inherent … Thus, this section of the Yoga Sutras is also called Ashtanga Yoga…The reason for practicing …
[PDF] Systematic Review on Enhancing Mental Well-Being through Ashtanga Yoga Practices
S Naragatti, HS Vadiraja
… The physical postures, or asanas, are an integral part of Ashtanga yoga and are designed to strengthen and purify the body. These postures are practiced in a specific sequence, with each posture building upon the previous one. The practice of Ashtanga …
[HTML] In Search of Context, In Search of Home
S Goel - Arts, 2023
… Yogaville was founded in 1980 by spiritual guru Sri Swami Satchidananda who spearheaded “integral yoga” in the 1960s and remains the headquarters for the Satchidananda Ashram where the guru’s yoga techniques and spiritual …
[PDF] Indian Management: New Routes to Corporate Culture
N Chatterjee
… Behavioural psychology is an integral element of management science. While we teach American and Japanese methods at our Business … At a normative level all these thoughts and thinkers also emphasised on “Karma Yoga” which were to a …
Hindu Nationalism and Its Ramifications
S Dash - Cultural Dimensions of India's Look-Act East Policy: A …, 2023
This chapter focusses on the rising Hindu nationalism in the Indian political context and its implications in Southeast Asia. It further discusses how this particular orientation would negatively affect the effectiveness of the Look-Act East policy …
The Diasporic Dimension
S Dash - Cultural Dimensions of India's Look-Act East Policy: A …, 2023
This chapter explores the Indian diaspora in Southeast Asia, particularly in connection with its Look/Act East Policy. In this study, efforts have been made to explore the potential of the community’s social, cultural and economic contributions …
The Way Forward
S Dash - Cultural Dimensions of India's Look-Act East Policy: A …, 2023
… It must involve turning away from the persuasive calls for Hindutva (Chapter 10) that would treat a stern view of Hinduism at the expense of the … Added to it, India’s religious diplomacy based on Hindutva and Buddhism and contested leadership in …
Heritage Diplomacy
S Dash - Cultural Dimensions of India's Look-Act East Policy: A …, 2023
… Similarly, India’s Hindutva-oriented heritage diplomacy has not paid high returns in Southeast Asia. Instead, had India chosen its diverse heritage of multiple religions and syncretic traditions to deploy abroad, it could have been more appealing to the …
Religious Diplomacy
S Dash - Cultural Dimensions of India's Look-Act East Policy: A …, 2023
… The Indonesian Hindus are gradually dissociating themselves from Hinduism in India, especially the Hindutva version promoted by Hindu nationalists. Against the several bouts of atrocities against minorities in India, Indonesian Hindus are …
[PDF] Decolonial AI Alignment: Vi\'{s} esadharma, Argument, and Artistic Expression
KR Varshney - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05030, 2023
… Arya Samaj, Gaudiya Vaishnavism including the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement), Satyagraha (Mahatma Gandhi’s movement which influenced civil rights movements around the world), and even …
INDIAN MODERNITIES
N Zaidi
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.| Includes bibliographical references and index.| Summary:“This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures …
[PDF] Antonia Pozzi's and Nan Shepherd's Mountains: A Matter of Affect
C Dellacasa - The Italianist, 2023
… In addition, in The Living Mountain we read that ‘[t]he sound of all this moving water is as integral to the mountain as pollen to the flower’ (LM, 26), and that heather ‘too is integral to the mountain. For heather grows in its most profuse luxuriance on …
[PDF] Musical Power And Shiva Tandav Dance A Comparative Study
R Nakod
… Overall, the musical impact in Shiva's Tandav dance is an integral aspect that elevates the dance from a physical performance to a deeply spiritual, emotional, and transformative experience. The interaction between the dance and the music creates …
[PDF] Ekambareswarar Temple At Kanchipuram: A Journey Through History, Architecture, And Spiritual Significance
K VEERAKKANNU, R ELAMARAN - Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics …, 2023
… Temples remain focal points of community engagement, while spiritual discourses, bhajan sessions, and yoga practices contribute to the … The stories, experiences, and contributions of its followers form an integral part of its narrative, carrying …
[PDF] Running Naked: A Thematic Analysis of the Lived Experience Running with and Without Technology
SM Tapia - 2023
Some use the term “running naked” with a tone of warmth and freedom, others with a lostness, a despondency. This study explored why. What is the lived experience of running with and without devices? The current study is the first to integrate the fields …
The Institutional Potential of Prefigurative Experiments: The Evolution of Collective Accounts in Auroville
SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… This required a change of consciousness, Siobhan remarked, thus pinning the potential of such an experiment to succeed on the evolution of spiritual consciousness that Integral Yoga was predicated upon. Unfortunately, New Dawn …
Spiritually Prefigurative Politics in Practice: An Embodied Account of an Auroville Community Decision-Making Process
SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… Auroville’s overarching aim is to prefigure the spiritual vision of Integral Yoga, a vision manifest from the practice of fusing the spiritual and material realms of existence, including societal realities, with the aim of uplifting the latter. On a vision …
The Economic Migrant and the Specter of Permanence in Why Cybraceros?, The Rag Doll Plagues, and Walk on Water
CS Ramírez - The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, 2023
… Sociologist Yen Le Espiritu defines differential inclusion as “the process whereby a group of people is deemed integral to the nation’s economy, culture, identity, and power—but integral only or precisely because of their designated subordinate …
All Life is Yoga: An Introduction
SA Clarence-Smith - Prefiguring Utopia, 2023
… Rather than individual enlightenment achieved through ascetic withdrawal, the premise of their ‘Integral Yoga’ was the spiritualization of … My own intentions and approach to the research I undertook were rooted in my own spiritual experience …
