Last week, a Hindu nationalist group celebrated its centenary and its remarkable trajectory. It was once banned for its association with the killing of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. Now ...

In the Indian nationalist movement, personalities and ideas emerged and evolved in response to British rule over a period of two centuries, first by the English East India Company and from 1858 the ...

The dominant political ideology in India today is Hindu nationalism, a spectrum of thought that represents a “New India.” In ...

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Vikram Visana received funding from the British Academy in 2019-2023. The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in ...

Whenever I try to balance between the esoteric and the everyday, my mind tends to go back to the memory of my teacher, Ramchandra Gandhi. He was a remarkable philosopher, an authority on mathematician ...

Pre-colonial resistance to Brahminism—the ideological source of caste—often took quasi-religious forms. The Dravidian movement secularised the caste question and shattered Brahmin hegemony, but it did ...

Diplomatic relations between India and Canada continue to decline in the aftermath of the slaying of a Canadian Sikh activist in British Columbia. A recent violent confrontation at a Hindu temple in ...