BJP

From Lucknow to Delhi

The BJP may well return to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2022. But if a rejuvenated opposition manages to limit the incumbent's victory tally, that could reshape the contours of the 2024 national…
▶22-Dec-2021
Sudha Pai

The Intrinsic Limits of Hindutva as an Ideology of the Indian State

The BJP has built an electoral juggernaut but the mishandling of the pandemic has shown that Hindutva as an ideology is a handicap in the running of a modern state. The challenge to the BJP will come…
▶30-Jun-2021
Peter Ronald deSouza
Review Article
Book
Book Review

Examining the Making of the Constitution

At the dawn of independence, the liberal traditions that underpin a constitutional democracy were absent in India. How did the framers of the Constitution deal with this challenge?
▶23-Jun-2020
Christophe Jaffrelot

Margins and Marginality

The Pathalgadi movement of Jharkhand drew on Munda traditions to fashion the 2019 electoral defeat of the incumbent party. A unique interplay of an assertion of constitutional rights, local…
▶04-Jun-2020
Mukulika Banerjee, Manisha Priyam
Review Article
Book
Book Review

The Rise of the Populist State

A populist idea has developed that an entrenched elite is exploiting deprived people. This then drives populist anger that certain types of leaders take advantage of and exploit through rhetoric and…
▶27-Apr-2020
Rudrangshu Mukherjee

'We are the True Inheritors of the Nationalist Legacy!'

Shaheen Bagh, like other sites of protest against the CAA and NRC, was more a consciousness than a mere physical space. The protesters' ways of imagining religion and nationalism to meet…
▶16-Apr-2020
Asim Ali

Why Aren’t Our Sports Celebrities Speaking Out?

Protests by young Indians against the CAA/NRC/NPR have been met with violence by the State and silence from their sporting heroes. Why do sports icons steer clear of issues and actions affecting…
▶10-Feb-2020
Sharda Ugra

Desacralising the City of Gods

A personal history of Banaras, the city of many cultures.
▶03-Feb-2020
Somok Roy

Three Streams in the Anti-CAA Movement

The protestors in the north-east, the Muslim community and a vast number of agitating students are all united against the CAA. But there are differences among them that they must be sensitive to;…
▶14-Jan-2020
H. Srikanth

Faith-based Citizenship

The Citizenship Amendment Bill and the pan-Indian National Register of Citizens mark a foundational shift in the Indian conception of citizenship, providing paths to citizenship for some and driving…
▶31-Oct-2019
Niraja Gopal Jayal