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Economic Transformations among Navayana Buddhist Women

Vol. 58, Issue No. 44, 04 Nov, 2023
Hritika Wasnik

The intricate nexus between religious conversion and economic transformation among Navayana Buddhist women is explored in this article. Narratives from Navayana Buddhist women underscore the tangible influence of religious conversion on economic mobility and community solidarity. The findings of the article contribute to a broader discourse on the intersection of religion and economic transformation.

Anti-conversion Legislation in Karnataka

The recent Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021, passed in the Karnataka legislative assembly that claims to combat conversion is a diabolical move by the government to provide legal cover to the majoritarian fundamentalist oppression against minorities.

Rights and Wrongs of Anti-conversion Law(s)

Vol. 56, Issue No. 1, 02 Jan, 2021
Saumya Uma, Niti Saxena

The legal ramifications of the recently promulgated Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 are examined by juxtaposing popular perceptions of inter-religious marriages as “dishonourable” to the concerned families and communities, with a feminist perspective of women’s agency and exercise of choice in marriage. The key to preventing the phenomenon of conversion for marriage lies not in enacting draconian legislations that arm the state machinery with arbitrary powers, but in streamlining and simplifying procedures under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 that allow for inter-religious marriages without religious conversion of either person.

‘Love Jihad’ is an Islamophobic Campaign: Why Honour is about Controlling Women's Bodies

In light of the renewed demand from certain sections of society to enact laws against religious conversions for marriage, this reading list analyses the harmful impact of the narrative of “love jihad” on Hindu women.

Parsis: Exploring Identities

Vol. 38, Issue No. 33, 16 Aug, 2003
Roshan G Shahani

Cultural nostalgia has proven to be as dangerous as cultural amnesia, whether in the case of the Parsis or others. It might be relevant at this point to examine some aspects of the Parsi-Zoroastrian past, not so much its history as much as its historiography.

Older than the Church

Vol. 38, Issue No. 33, 16 Aug, 2003
Ajay Sekher

Despite Christianity that made inroads into Kerala nearly two millennia ago, and communism that emerged as a powerful egalitarian force in the last century, caste continues to exercise an insidious, all-pervasive influence in Kerala. While the novel The God of Small Things attempts to subvert patriarchic norms that sustain caste and gender domination by its use of subversive comparisons and analogies, ancient hierarchies that sustain the caste and the gender question still remain assertive, unresolved even by the healing and redeeming powers of fiction.

Identity, Hegemony, Resistance

Vol. 36, Issue No. 44, 03 Nov, 2001
Biswamoy Pati

The subject of religious conversion is rarely studied with reference to Hinduism. On the other hand, reports of adivasi 're-conversion' imply that their Hindu identity is taken for granted, justifying in turn the need for re-conversion. As a further contradiction, while Hinduisation involves their integration with the varna order, they are simultaneously regarded as outcastes - a process that involves hegemony and exploitation of the adivasis and outcastes. This paper, based on the questioning and interrogating the way conversion has been located, takes up the history of conversion in Orissa over the last 200 years

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