Hindutva
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The Hindu Liberal test
Answering a reader who says India honours Muslim heritage, the author proposes a ‘Babri test’ of whether a Hindutva supporter values liberalism or Hinduism: whether the Babri Masjid should be…
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Was India ever really “secular”?
Starting from a book asking whether Europe was ever really Christian, the author argues India’s secularism was a chimera, a collectivist society ruled by an English-speaking elite, whose failure to…
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Modi has failed us but at least he put the Muslims in their place
Extracts from Kapil Komireddi’s column on India’s 2019 election, which says Hindu voters tell him Modi has failed them but has at least put Muslims in their place, plus the…
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Analysing The Election Podcast –
Reflecting on reaction to Browncast Episode 38, the author argues that new Hindu intellectuals reject the Nehruvian secular settlement and want India organised on dharmic principles with a Hindu soul…
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Why I find it difficult to debate Hinditvas + liberal Zionists
The author argues that Pakistan and Iran should be judged as Islamic Republics, but India and Israel, which claim to be liberal democracies, must meet those standards. He says Israel’s…
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As India Saffronises, 9 Questions on her Za’faran sister (IranZamin) with Professor Foltz-
Starting from the etymology of saffron, the author laments the loss of India’s Islamicate and Persianate heritage as the country saffronises, with Urdu left to the Hindu majority’s mercy. He…
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Browncast Episode 31: Jalliawala Bagh Podcast
On Browncast Episode 31, marking a hundred years since Jallianwala Bagh, hosts and guests broadly agree that Britain should apologise for the massacre, then range across identity, the ‘Hindu rage’…
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Beware of Hinditvas
Zach defends his earlier criticism of Hindi as an artificial language, dubbing his critics ‘Hinditvas’, and says liberal Pakistanis are equally hypocritical about Islam. He blames both Nehru and Jinnah-style…
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Will Indians become white, will India become Western?
Zach wonders whether India will become Western, citing Alia Bhatt’s Filmfare dress, and argues Pakistan is sailing out of South Asia. He suggests Hindutva is the Abrahamification of Hinduism while…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 23: Dr. Jeffery Long on Hinduism, history and politics
The hosts talk to Jeffery Long, a religious studies professor at Elizabethtown College and Vedanta practitioner, about the nature of Hindu philosophy, its interaction with Islam, the astika and nastika…
