civilisational state
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On Civilisational States and Who Gets to Claim the Indus
X.T.M disputes Kabir’s claim that calling India a civilisational state is a right-wing position, arguing the case is archaeological. He says Mohenjo-daro’s Pashupati seal and other religious motifs continue into…
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Iran and Pakistan Are Not the Same Kind of State
X.T.M argues that Iran cannot be analysed like Pakistan because it is a civilisation-state some three thousand years old. He says authority there rests on inherited ideas, from monarchy to…
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Why India’s National Calendar Needs Urgent Correction
X.T.M argues that India’s national holiday calendar is distorted, with five Abrahamic festivals central and most Dharmic ones optional. He proposes swapping them for five indigenous festivals, and contends that…
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Pakistan as India’s Ukraine?
X.T.M asks whether Pakistan’s strategic patrons will ever lift its human development, and offers the analogy of India and Pakistan as Russia and Ukraine, with Ukraine imagined as nuclear-armed. He…
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Trump Has Birthed Eurasia
X.T.M argues that Donald Trump’s treatment of India has pushed Narendra Modi towards the SCO summit alongside Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, and reads the occasion as the start of…
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and What Is a Civilizational State?
X.T.M argues that moderation exists to keep open discussion open, then defines a civilisational state as a nation that sees itself as the continuation of an ancient cultural memory. On…
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The Myth of the British-Made India
Rebuts Francis Pike’s Spectator claim that the British created India and Nehru and Gandhi invented its unity. The author argues India is a civilisational unit older than the Raj, that…
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The Indian Overton: Opposition Offensives
The Emissary argues that India’s civilisational unity long predates its political unity, that Hindutva and development have strengthened it, and that the opposition, lacking a rival unifying ideology, risks denying…
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Sharing a continent
The author notes the subcontinent and China hold over 40 per cent of humanity yet know little of each other, and argues that Indian claims of a continuous ‘pagan’ civilisation…
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Book Review: A New Idea of India- Harsh Gupta & Rajeev Mantri
A review of Harsh Gupta and Rajeev Mantri’s A New Idea of India, which the reviewer sees as an earnest attempt to present the modern Indian state as heir to…
