Scholarship on the history of modern India has associated Banaras Hindu University, founded in 1915, with the rise of Hindu nationalism. The intentions of the Pandit Malaviya, probably the most well-known promoter of Hinduism, to foster Hindu identity and unity at BHU have been …
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This study tries to understand how the postcolonial state in India has treated its religious minorities since independence (1947-1997) by examining the official policy of secularism which, in the Indian context, stands for 'equal respect for all religions.' I argue that since th…
This dissertation examines Insider Movements, a missiological strategy where adherents of a high-religious system retain their socio-religious birth identity as a means of preventing extraction, thereby aiding the evangelistic and church planting task by keeping the social and f…
In this thesis I theorize Indian revolutionary V.D. Savarkar's seminal text "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?" (1923), comparing related themes in Carl Schmitt's Weimar writings: national myth (1923) and the friend-enemy distinction (1932). Responding to the first phase of mass-mobiliz…
In the anthropological study of Bali, the underlying analytical framework has been characterized by a stereotypical, and sometimes misleading division of Balinese culture into discrete categories of Old-Balinese or "Bali Aga" and Hindu-Javanese types of social organization. This…
Wayang kulit (shadow puppet theater), as practiced in Java, Indonesia, has long been understood to be primarily a "classical" or "high" art form. The story-episodes performed, depicting the actions of Hindu gods and heroes, are typically conceived as signs of the "syncretism" of…
In his novels on India, Rushdie finds it necessary to employ the mythical mode which accommodates the deeply religious as well as the secular side of the nation. Especially in Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh, the Hindu gods dance through his pages, taking on the myt…
By the end of the nineteenth century an apparatus of disciplining modernity had cleansed and regulated the performance of music in Western India. In a new cultural public sphere, an emerging bourgeoisie was presented Sanskritized entertainment in the form of Marathi music drama.…
This study isolates a set of ideas from the large corpus of information on possession and unmāda in Indian literature and culture. I trace the history of the concept of unmāda from the Āyurvedic texts (ca. 3rd–7th centuries C.E.), where it is an undesirable condition, to the lat…
This dissertation examines the recent nuclear security problematique in India under the Hindu Right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. It represents an analytical hybrid of realism and critical social constructivism as its theoretical framework and the concept of post-colo…
The Hindu nationalist movement in India is usually represented, and often represents itself, as a movement united in its efforts to purge the country of all Muslim and Christian influences and establish India as a Hindu nation. The movement legitimises its exclusionary rhetoric …
While religious borders separate communities and contribute to inter-religious violence, the definitions of those borders frequently arouse intense debate. In South Asia, religious borders led to the Partition of India and Pakistan, which pressured Sindhi Hindus, like other comm…
In the classical Western philosophical tradition, wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance are considered to be the "four cardinal virtues." Of this list of virtues only one, courage, or andreia in Greek, was derived from the same root (andr) that the Greeks used for the English…
The Hindu nationalist movement's combination of State power and paramilitary violence has established unsecular, subordinationalist, cleansing counter-polities within the Indian Republic. Despite constitutional guarantees of legal equality and protection, minorities (Christians …
The 2002 Gujarati Riots were one of the worst outbreaks of violence between Hindus and Muslims in India in recent history. While there have been some publications on the incident, there has been a startling lack of studies that have looked at the victims' experiences of the riot…
This research pertains to sexual violence against women (VAW) in contexts of inter-ethnic violence in South-Asia, India, and examines victim and community rape blame attributions made by Muslims and Hindus. Specifically the study focused on assessing attitudes that predict blame…
Research on Muslim women in India has increased in recent years, but remains sparse. The few existing studies rarely examine the interplay of religion and gender on Muslim women, nor do they investigate the historical influences shaping Muslim women's lives. Using the National S…
This work suggests that the underdevelopment of South Asia's Muslims vis-à-vis Hindus of the region stems from differences in the commercial institutions and inheritance laws of the two communities. First, the Hindu joint family was a durable institution that could branch out in…