Posts tagged: india

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  European Empires from Conquest to Collapse

  Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill, introduces a new edition of Victor Kiernan’s trail-blazing history of imperial warfare.
• A Foreigner, a Suspect, outside Kashmir

  To be a Kashmiri in India is to be a stranger in your own country. Writer Majid Maqbool here writes about the experience of Kashmiris under the rule of Modi and the BJP.

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  The Forsaken Ones

  Since the beginning of April, Muslims in India have faced increasing religious persecution and attacks, events that have escalated across the country. Shivangi Mariam Raj reports on this state-led hatred and violence, and the threat of genocide facing the country's 207 million Muslims.

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  Varavara Rao in Prison: Urban Maoists and Other Enemies of the Indian State

  Aditya Bahl protests against the continued imprisonment of the Marxist poet, Varavara Rao, and examines how the current cycle of rightwing repression is part of a much longer political history, shaped by the changing relationship between the Indian state and capitalism. 

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  Destroying to Replace: Settler Colonialism from Kashmir to Palestine

  "Despite India’s successful overthrow of British rule, it has created a colonial occupation of its own in Jammu and Kashmir. And recently, it has been taking its cues straight from Israel’s playbook."

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  No Country for Women

  Shigraf Zahbi reports on misogyny in Modi's India.

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  Living as a Virus in Modi's India

  From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how "the virus" became "the Muslim virus" in less than a week.

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  Kashmir on the Edge of the Abyss

  Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir

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  Hostages to Democracy

  Focussing on the Indian government's counterinsurgency operations against Maoists in Bastar, Nandini Sundar examines how formal democracy works to subvert popular power. 

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  Hindu Authoritarianism and Agrarian Distress

  To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism we have to fight against more than just communalism.

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  The Paradox of the Holy Cow

  Historian D.N. Jha describes the contradictions of the purificatory role of cows in early Brāhmaņical society.

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  Marxism and Nationalism

  Achin Vanaik surveys a large body of theories of the nation and nationalism, and considers them in the context of contemporary India.