A Latter-Day Fascism? (2014)
This analysis of the majority the Hindu nationalist BJP won in the 2014 elections has been made in accordance with the framework within which I have analysed the previous two elections – 2004...
Gujarat’s Hindutva of Capitalist Development (2011)
Commentators contemplating the hold of Hindutva in Gujarat swing between anxiously wondering whether it shows where the rest of the country is headed and complacent insistence that it is exceptional. Against the background of...
Die Ausbürgerung Einheimischer und die Einbürgerung von Ausländern: Der Hindu-Nationalismus und das Revival des Hindi-Kinos in den 1990er Jahren (2007)
Das kommerzielle Hindi-Kino Bombays spiegelt nicht nur die indische Politik wider, sondern gestaltet sie oftmals mit: zwischen beiden besteht eine enge und reflexive Beziehung. In den 1950ern besaß das Hindi-Kino einen weitgehend entwicklungsfokussierten, proto-sozialistischen...
Dreaming in Technicolour: India as a BRIC Economy (2007)
India had a special significance for the BRICs thesis. Given its demographic bias, the thesis rested disproportionately on the Chinese and Indian cases. While India’s contribution to the aggregates for the BRICs were more...
Indien: Endlich ein Land der Gegenwart? (2006)
Brasilien ist nicht das einzige Land, das darunter leidet, eine glänzende Zu- kunft, vielleicht eine rubmreiche Vergangenheit, aber immer eine erbärmliche Gegenwart zu haben. In diesem Zustand. Unterentw1cklung genannt, verhar. ren immer noch drei...
Forward March of Hindutva Halted? (2004)
If, as Gramsci said, the counting of “votes” is the final ceremony of a long process—a process of persuasion and alliance-building—the 2004 Indian elections were an apparent anomaly for the Gramscian schema.The surprise installation...
Tryst with Fate: India and Pakistan in the War on Terrorism (2002)
The Mumbai attacks revealed the real – bad and deteriorating – relations between India and Pakistan. They did not cause them. This 2002 paper now appears prescient from today’s perspective. It examines the sources...
The Last Satrap Revolt? (1999)
The bulk of comment on the recent revolt in the Congress Party focuses on the rebel trio’s stated objections. It ignores the elementary political truth that politicians leaving a party to form a new...
Culturalism and the Contemporary Right: The Indian Bourgeoisie and Political Hindutva (1999)
The formation of a Hindu nationalist government in May 1998 at the crest of hindutva’s recent electoral surge clearly testifies to the increasingly authoritarian urges of India’s ruling class. Hindutva’s chances of holding state...