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Hindu nationalism

Sujit Choudhry (CCT), Madhav Khosla (Harvard), and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Ashoka): Locating Indian Constitutionalism. Jaakko Husa (Lapland): Hindu Law: Stateless Law? Licyamma Abraham (SIMS): Hinduism and Its Symbols. Priya Chacko (Adelaide): Marketising Hindutva: The State, Society and Markets in Hindu Nationalism. Radhika Desai on Hindutva and fascism. Modernity, religion, secularism: Tripurdaman Singh on why accepting India’s Hindu fundamentals will help the secular project. Scott R. Stroud (Texas): Pragmatism and the Pursuit of Social Justice in India: Ambedkar and the Rhetoric of Religious Reorientation. Girish Shahane on how Vivekananda laid the foundation for India’s politics of sectarianism.

Indian liberals must die: Raghu Karnad on Gauri Lankesh and the vernacular Indian Left. Narendra Modi is pretty impressive, says Francis Fukuyama. Neera Chandhoke on why Nehru matters more than ever.