Hinduism

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

What We Can Learn From the Surge of Far-Right Violence in India What We Can Learn From the Surge of Far-Right Violence in India

Too many upper-caste Indians and white Americans think of themselves as the only ones worthy of enjoying the spoils of the earth.

May 26, 2023 / Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox

Yogathon

The Hindu Nationalist Campaign to Promote Yoga The Hindu Nationalist Campaign to Promote Yoga

An organization with ties to India’s RSS uses seemingly benign cultural tactics to spread its ideology—including the annual “Yogathon.”

Apr 6, 2023 / Deeksha Udupa and Raqib Hameed Naik

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Hindu Nationalism’s Alarming Rise in the US Goes Beyond Texas Hindu Nationalism’s Alarming Rise in the US Goes Beyond Texas

The 2019 Houston rally—where Trump and Modi rubbed elbows—wasn’t the end of Hindutva's ascent in the United States. 

Sep 15, 2022 / Pranay Somayajula

Book Burning in India

The Hindu Right and Attacks on Academic Freedom in the US The Hindu Right and Attacks on Academic Freedom in the US

Every scholar who conducts research on India is aware that their publications are probably being monitored—and that taking a critical position can lead to threats, beatings, and ev...

Dec 1, 2021 / Vinayak Chaturvedi

bjp rally

‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’ ‘Where Are the Moderate Hindus?’

India is reeling from two deadly viruses: Covid-19 and Hindutva—a century-old far-right political ideology whose founders were directly inspired by Hitler’s Nazism and Italian Fasc...

May 14, 2021 / Sunita Viswanath

Thomas Blom Hansen

The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror The Modi Government Is a Regime of Low-Intensity Terror

Stanford University anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen discusses the rise of anger, brutality, and violence in Indian public life.

Mar 24, 2021 / Q&A / Ullekh N.P.

India: Intimations of an Ending

India: Intimations of an Ending India: Intimations of an Ending

The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.

Nov 22, 2019 / Feature / Arundhati Roy

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