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Conservative Framing of the Hijab Issue and the Muslim Women’s Movement

Vol. 57, Issue No. 12, 19 Mar, 2022
Razia Patel

Conservative and reactionary forces among Hindus and Muslims appear to be the major beneficiaries of the controversy over wearing hijab to schools. Such issues being the traps or detours laid by these forces, marginalised communities must choose their battlegrounds wisely. Instead of diverting the energy to the sectarian agenda of enforcing a dress code and perpetuating marginalisation, Muslim women’s movement should uphold the “Shaheen Bagh Spirit” of upholding constitutional values and unitedly fighting for rights and equality.

 

Religious Piety in Islam and Contemporary India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 48, 27 Nov, 2021
Shashank Chaturvedi

Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India edited by Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020; pp 240, ₹795 (hardback).

 

The Call of the Funeral Pyre

Vol. 56, Issue No. 33, 14 Aug, 2021
Nandagopal R Menon

Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition by David Arnold, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021; pp 268, $70.

 

Are Jains Hindu by 'Law' and Not by Faith?

From Jobless to Job-loss Growth

Vol. 54, Issue No. 44, 09 Nov, 2019
K P Kannan, G Raveendran

The unprecedented decline in the absolute number of workers in the Indian economy in recent times has been a subject of debate and a matter of public concern. A closer look at the data for the period 2011–12 and 2017–18 shows that it is the net result of a dynamic process of job creation and destruction. Those who have lost jobs are all with low education, that is, less than secondary level of education. From a gender perspective, rural women workers are the net losers. From a social point of view, the net losers belong to two groups: Muslims and Hindu Other Backward Classes. These are clear signs of rural India in distress with strong gender and social dimensions.

Cow Veneration among Meo Muslims of Mewat Presents the Complex Nature of Religious Identities

Vol. 54, Issue No. 1, 05 Jan, 2019
Cows, as a symbol, enforce the notion of peasanthood across the Hindu–Muslim religious divide. The current identification of cows entirely with Hinduism is only representative of colonial and postcolonial politics. The article looks at the case of cow veneration among the Meo Muslims in the Mewat region to present the complex nature of religious identities.

A World of Curiosity and Inquiry

Vol. 53, Issue No. 45, 17 Nov, 2018
Malini Nair

Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga by Carl W Ernst,Sage/Yoda Press, 2016; pp 520, ₹1,050.

Bureaucracy and Border Control

Vol. 52, Issue No. 15, 15 Apr, 2017
Farhana Ibrahim

Studies on militarisation and borders in South Asia have often remained focused on zones of spectacular conflict such as Kashmir, or Punjab during the partition. This article tracks the production of a discourse on borders by those charged with border security such as the police and other senior bureaucracy in the decades following the partition. It suggests that the “border question” evolved gradually out of a series of everyday concerns over local criminality that finally coalesced into the more abstract category of “national security.” It examines bureaucratic debates on police reorganisation in Kutch between 1948 and 1952 to suggest that contemporary discourses on nation and borders were arrived at through intra-bureaucratic negotiations with the far less abstract categories of village, locality and region.

Hindi, Hindu, Horror

Vol. 52, Issue No. 7, 18 Feb, 2017
Dibyakusum Ray

Filming Horror: Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies by Meraj Ahmed Mubarki; New Delhi: Sage, 2016; pp 196, ₹695.

Dhar on Tenterhooks

Vol. 51, Issue No. 15, 09 Apr, 2016
Anshu Saluja

A communal flare up may have been avoided in the Bhojshala complex at Dhar in Madhya Pradesh, but majoritarian Hindu groups continue to stoke popular communal passions unabated. 

The Khasis as Hindus

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016
Avner Pariat

Hindu religious practices may have influenced present day monotheistic Christinatity prevalent among the Khasis. However the cultural and religious linkages between Hinduism and Christianity in Khasi Hills need to be investigated keeping in mind that there was no defined centre for the Hindu faith and the influence may have been more syncretistic than partisan. 

Menstruation, Purity and Right to Worship

Vol. 51, Issue No. 9, 27 Feb, 2016
Anant Kumar

The growing protest against temples that deny access to menstruating women should also challenge the institutionalisation of faith and the mediating power of the priest.

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