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With justice question back, BJP’s harmony platform faces fresh challenge
1 year, 3 months ago

With justice question back, BJP’s harmony platform faces fresh challenge

The Hindu  

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh established the Samajik Samrasta Manch in 1983 in an open effort to reach out to the subaltern caste groups. Social justice parties that mobilised subaltern social groups grew stronger around the same time the RSS started this effort. Whenever the slogan of Hindu unity got the upper hand, the BJP won; whenever the justice question came …

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A rereading of Kerala modernity
2 years, 3 months ago

A rereading of Kerala modernity

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 22, 2022 10:00 IST Writing a decade ago, Nissim Mannathukkaren observed that the most progressive outcome of the communist engagement in Kerala was its ability to convert “culture” into a “cog in the movement towards a material understanding and transformation of society”. This book is Mannathukkaren’s meticulous and empirically rich response to attempts at studying Kerala using …

Society Kerala Political Modernity Cultural Left Material
Opinion| How Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as messiah of social justice
3 years, 6 months ago

Opinion| How Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as messiah of social justice

Firstpost  

The recent Cabinet expansion by Modi gives a strong message to the communities, who were left out till date in policy-making and decision-making, that their time has come The issues of equality and diversity have been at the core of all social and political ideologies globally. The above introduction is in the backdrop of the recent Cabinet expansion of Prime …

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The fine print in Hindutva
3 years, 9 months ago

The fine print in Hindutva

The Hindu  

Modern democracies are erected upon the twin pillars of rights and representation. In the post-Independence era, while the JP movement presented an ideological critique of the excesses of the state and foregrounded the safeguarding of the rights of citizens, the parties born out of the movement gradually embraced the politics of ‘impoverished representation’, wherein who was being represented became the …

Politics Hinduism Representation Rights Bjp Hindutva
The Subaltern Shift: Why Bengal is Talking About Castes This Election Season
3 years, 9 months ago

The Subaltern Shift: Why Bengal is Talking About Castes This Election Season

News 18  

“I cannot take this anymore,” Chuni Kotal told her family members days before she died by suicide at a hostel in West Midnapore in August 1992. “Unfortunately, it never took off because political parties such as the Left, the Congress, the TMC and the BJP never wanted that to happen…it was also due to lack of unity among Dalits and …

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