Posted in On Hindu Nationalism, tagged Hindu nationalism, India, politics, religion, religiopolitics on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
©Tessa Valo, 2007
tessa.valo@indiatimes.com
„Declare without hesitation that this is a Hindu rashtra, a nation of Hindus. We have come to strenghten the immense Hindu shakti into a fist. Do not display any love for your enemies … The Quran teaches them to lie in wait for idol worshippers, to skin them alive, to [...]
Posted in On Hindu Nationalism, tagged colonialism, postcolonialism, power, religion, resistance on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Power, Resistance and their Religious Manifestations: The Cases of the Colonial and Postcolonial Period
©Tessa Valo, 2007
tessa.valo@indiatimes.com
Introduction
As the title of this essay suggests, we will be concerned here with the fundamental relation between power, resistance, and the religious manifestations of these. Though power and resistance can take many forms and are as such to [...]
