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South Asian context

The latest issue of Indi@logs: Spanish Journal of India Studies is out. Beatrice Jauregui (Toronto): Just War: The Metaphysics of Police Vigilantism in India. Amartya Sen on the stormy revival of an international university (and more and more and more). Taylor Dibbert on the rise of Narendra Modi. Ananya Vajpeyi interviews Pankaj Mishra on how modern India looks at its premodernity. Rebecca Leber on India’s war on environmental activists. Shoaib Daniyal on an India-Bangla land swap: Was the world’s strangest border created by a game of chess? “Whoever raises their head suffers the most”: An article on workers’ rights in Bangladesh’s garment factories. Omer Aziz on what Pakistan must do to rid itself of violent extremism. Ahmed Rashid on the fierce pressures facing Pakistan. A thin line of defense against “honor killings”: Alissa Rubin on how women’s shelters are one of the most provocative legacies of the Western presence in Afghanistan. Shannon Sutton on think tanks and universities: The South Asian context.