Saumya Dey
The Academic Delegitimization of Hinduism: Some Influential Narratives
It could be that ‘Hindu’ is an exonym (a name of foreign provenance) and was adopted relatively late by my forebears. But all that this ... Read More
From Robbery to ‘Free Trade’: British Politics & Intensification of Colonial Exploitation of India
What exactly had come over the British political elite at the turn of the 1780s? Was the seeming concern that they were displaying for India ... Read More
That Bogey called ‘Brahminism’
Nomenclature or concepts like ‘Brahminical’ and ‘Brahminism’ (which are deployed, as we saw above, in pejorative or castigatory senses) are outcomes of generalization and theorization ... Read More
Why the Left Does Not Comprehend the Indian ‘Felt Community’
I prefer the phrase ‘felt community’ to the term ‘nation’. This is because, I think, it helps one better understand the large, trans-local, human solidarities ... Read More
JNU, the Headquarters of the Breaking India Enterprise
There is a bundle of bile and toxicity, namely, a book, available in the market. It is somewhat pompously titled as What the Nation Really ... Read More
The Origins of Cultural Marxism: A Concise Account
We see that today the ‘cultural Marxist’ tendency, the enthusiastic endorsement of identity and cultural politics through the identification of oppressor-oppressed binaries dominates the political ... Read More
Ambedkar’s Thoughts on Indian Muslim Society and Politics
It is true that in it Ambedkar advised the Hindus to grant the Muslims of India Pakistan. But the reasons he adduced to support this ... Read More