Hindu-Muslim relations
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Open Thread- Love Jihad?
Open thread opening on interfaith marriage and ‘Love Jihad’, with a quoted view that it is conversion when only one partner shares the other’s culture, and a pointer to Dr…
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The saffron and the crescent – why BP matters
The author argues that candid comments from Pakistani Muslim commenters on interfaith marriage and idol worship expose a Hindu-Muslim mismatch in worldviews that Indian liberals avoid confronting, and cites Pew…
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Does the average muslim ‘dislike hindus’?
RecoveringNewsJunkie rejects a commenter’s claim that the average Muslim dislikes Hindus. The post argues that treating hundreds of millions as one mindset ignores regional and class differences, that political and…
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Open Thread; The Archive, The Lynching, and Humanity First
Open thread noting the backtagging of the archive, then taking up a commenter’s linked report of the lynching of Suleman Khan Pathan, 20, and a debate over asymmetric condemnation of…
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At the Heart of the conflict
Nachiketa argues that debates on India-Pakistan and Hindu-Muslim conflict miss a core issue. Prompted by the alleged TCS Nashik conversion case, he points to reports of forced conversion and sexual…
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Double Standards, Modi’s Gamble, and Why Ramadan Gets It Right
X.T.M argues that applying a deconstructive lens to Hinduism but not Islam is asymmetric, citing Manu Pillai’s book. The post also treats Pakistan’s literacy gap and Modi’s strategy, and ends…
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 2)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part two of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, examines the thesis that the Muslim League won and most Muslims stayed, using Deleuze and Guattari to frame…
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 1)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part one of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, agrees that diversity is not India’s central problem, but questions whether the diagnosis of Partition as its trauma…
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The Unfinished Contract II: Citizenship, Partition, and the Questions Liberalism Won’t Ask
X.T.M argues that Partition left India with an unresolved social contract: citizenship for Muslims who stayed was declared, never constituted, and secularism became a way to avoid the question. He…
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The Honey Trap of the Ummah:
X.T.M argues that a dispute with commenters exposes the fault lines in the India–Pakistan–Muslim triad. He contends that Indian minorities have accepted an unspoken compact of living within an increasingly…
