From World Policy, Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Brysac on Kerala, India: Communism Lite and God’s Own Country. A review of The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger (and an interview and more). From The Hindu, to be a Muslim in India today: To be a member of the largest religious minority in India is to live with a mounting disillusionment and a sense of fear that never goes away. A review of Partition, Bengal and After: The Great Tragedy of India by Kali Prasad Mukhopadhyay. The introduction to Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami by Irfan Ahmad. The first chapter from Islam in South Asia in Practice. Joel Robbins reviews The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland South Asia by James C. Scott. Buddha’s savage peace: Sri Lanka’s civil war is finally over — can Buddhists and Hindus coexist there once again? What does it look like to win a war on terror? In Sri Lanka, it's fewer suicide bombers, a real estate boom, and hundreds of thousands of Tamils still packed into overcrowded camps. Ian MacKinnon examines the fractious politics of Nepal, where Maoists compete with monarchists and supporters of the president and prime minister. Last year, after a decade of violence, Maoist rebels drove through the abolition of Nepal’s monarchy, but all too quickly they themselves fell from power — what chance now for peace and democracy? Back to the brink: The spread of violence in Nepal is not just the Maoists’ fault. Women fighters in Nepal: Three years after the end of the civil war, former female rebels are still fighting for equality as the government struggles to integrate them into the national army. An article on why Nepal matters.
