Tag: Indian Muslims
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India’s Hijab Ban, Part II: Defining Islamic Identity
In the previous section we explored a general trend in contemporary thinkers who — while recognizing the flaws in the existing democratic-constitutional-secular-liberal regime (the ideal in international politics) — locate these flaws in something external to the regime as a kind of consequence of history. Legal scholar Faizan Mustafa and historian Irfan Habib are two…
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India’s Hijab Ban, Part I: Limits of the Democratic Constitutional Order
In March of 2022, the Indian High Court in Karnataka upheld the government ban on Hijab in schools as constitutional.
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A Book Review of Rana Ayyub’s “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up”
Journalist Rana Ayyub’s investigation into the Gujarat riots has yet to be considered seriously, while what is now a nightmare in India could become a permanent cataclysm.
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Hindu Nationalism: History, Ideology, Nation
In an age of unprecedented anti-Muslim lynching and violence against minorities in India, Islamophobic bigotry extends its arms into modern Indian State figures.