Hindutva
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Browncast: India Elections 2024; Ashvamedha Interrupted
Omar Ali and several Brown Pundits discuss the 2024 Indian elections in detail, including the BJP’s setbacks, and plan follow-up episodes on narrower issues such as the future of Hindu…
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Jatitva: When Caste Becomes a Cancer
The author argues that caste politics is the most corrosive element in Indian democracy today and coins ‘Jatitva’ for the idea that the state should serve one’s caste, a counterpart…
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Podcast: A “Frank” conversation about modern Indian politics
A BrownCast in which the host and Akshar talk to ‘Frank’, an Indian financial professional interested in history and politics, about everything from Nehruvian India to Modinomics and Hindutva, and…
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Critical Caste Theory: A Dubious Discourse
An essay arguing that ‘Critical Caste Theory’, borrowed from Critical Race Theory, seeks to break the BJP’s caste coalition and attack ‘Brahminism’, which it sees as a term for Hinduism,…
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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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The Indian Overton: Saffron Secularism
The Emissary argues that Indian and international commentary misreads the BJP’s rule, pointing to economic growth, minority attitudes and Narendra Modi’s popularity, and sees the party as the dead centre…
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The Die is Cast: the death of Indian Liberalism
Nachiketa explains how his politics have moved since 2019, a moderate liberal critic of the BJP who now blames Indian liberals’ stance on Article 370, the CAA protests and the…
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Khalid Baig on Indian Nationalism and Islam
In a BP Podcast, Gaurav talks to Khalid Baig, described as an Indian nationalist, about Indian nationalism, Hindu-Muslim relations, Hindutva and India’s future; Baig also co-hosts the YouTube show India…
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If you have a hammer, everything is a nail
Answering the Indian and Indian American Left’s reaction to his caste piece, Razib Khan argues that leftists and Hindu nationalists share deep identitarian presuppositions, rejects the label ‘upper-caste Muslim’, and…
