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Ambiguous reasons for the unexpected relief of the BJP's ouster in New Delhi: less a clear-cut verdict on Hindutva or neoliberalism than vicissitudes of regional power-broking & first-past-the-post electoral lottery? Congress is caught between loyalty to the stock market & pressures of the poor, as it seeks to recover its position as the mainstream reference of Indian capital. Adapted from the source document.

Introduction -- 1 From the 'Rainbow' to 'Saffron': BJP's Changing Electoral Strategies -- 2 Unmaking the Consensus: The NRC Debacle -- 3 Hindutva at the Core: CAB-turned-CAA and Assam's Political Destiny -- 4 Dream Seller's Economy: Promises and Populism -- 5 Conservation, People's Entitlements and National Security -- 6 Pandemic and Politics: BJP's Electoral Prospects -- Epilogue -- References -- About the Author -- Index.

In November 2023, the Bridge Initiative released a new report into the nature and presence of Hindu nationalism in the UK. Speaking to a country absorbed in conversation around multiculturalism and religious tensions, Chris Allen outlines what we can learn from Leicester and the rest of this report. A year on from the disturbances that … Continued

Taking the example of recent educational reform movements in India, we identify in an exemplary way nationalization tendencies in the education sector. Thereby, we stress the sociocultural embedding in the present as context of the emergence of these nationalist future visions. In the education sector, likewise as in other sectors, the past is a point of reference to legitimate and enforce specific futures. Following Appadurai, we define future as well as the past as cultural fact. Focusing upon India and the development of a new National Education Policy (NEP) as the field of study, we show exemplarily how an imagined past is used to promote the implementation of Hindu-fundamentalist educational reforms or a sanskritization of education in the present time. Finally, we discuss some possible consequences. (DIPF/Orig.)