Erasing histories and renaming cities does not signify genuine decolonisation or progressive thinking. Instead, it perpetuates exclusionary narratives and social divisions.
India is experiencing a de-secularization phase where religious power and people’s faiths are being used as exploitative tools to advance government ideologies and policies.
Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Sacred Cow and Chicken Manchurian' by James Staples will be released on 29 February on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.
The Jim Crow project was not eliminationist. Hindu nationalists likewise seek not the physical elimination of Muslims, but rather their relegation to second-class citizenship, scholars Ashutosh Varshney and Connor Staggs write in the Journal of Democracy.
Published by HarperCollins,'Politics of Hate: Religious Majoritarianism in South Asia' has been edited by Farahnaz Ispahani and will be released on 21 February on ThePrint’s Softcover.
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While Hindu groups like the HSS flag the report as 'unreliable', anti-Hindutva activists say that it's based on available data but not getting enough attention.
In India, only 17% of public sector banks and 25% of private sector banks claimed to have an internal strategy for integrating climate risks into their risk management framework.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.
1. How is this author defining modesty then? The writer seems to be a liberal feminist having an agenda to make nationalism a problem while sitting in Oxford as an elite.
2. What is wrong in having a cultural and ideological agenda? Britishers did Brexit with a similar agenda-even today.
3. How would one define or conceptualise de-colonisation sitting in AC rooms writing in British English amongst the colonisers as an elite liberal ?
If the current political ideology based on exclusions is taken to its logical end , you will end up with nothing but a new caste system where the followers of minority religion will be treated as lower caste citizens and all Hindus become upper castes.
Decolonization means nothing if you dismiss something without studying it. There were positives and negatives in colonization. To reject positives from it and reinvent a revisionist understanding of history based on hindsight is travelling in the wrong direction. Not something seekers of truth should undertake. This is the land where we believe that knowledge can come from all directions. In pursuing decoloniality , we loose that belief for our own peril.
I hope you have never written from an AC room.
decolonisation can wait – de-Islamization of bharatham needs to continue at a faster pace.
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1. How is this author defining modesty then? The writer seems to be a liberal feminist having an agenda to make nationalism a problem while sitting in Oxford as an elite.
2. What is wrong in having a cultural and ideological agenda? Britishers did Brexit with a similar agenda-even today.
3. How would one define or conceptualise de-colonisation sitting in AC rooms writing in British English amongst the colonisers as an elite liberal ?
Kindly answer without getting defensive.
If the current political ideology based on exclusions is taken to its logical end , you will end up with nothing but a new caste system where the followers of minority religion will be treated as lower caste citizens and all Hindus become upper castes.
Decolonization means nothing if you dismiss something without studying it. There were positives and negatives in colonization. To reject positives from it and reinvent a revisionist understanding of history based on hindsight is travelling in the wrong direction. Not something seekers of truth should undertake. This is the land where we believe that knowledge can come from all directions. In pursuing decoloniality , we loose that belief for our own peril.
I hope you have never written from an AC room.
decolonisation can wait – de-Islamization of bharatham needs to continue at a faster pace.