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Author @UMinnPress book Desis Divided https://t.co/nqPYpYbkbQ… @USC grad!! Associate Professor, Political Science @DrewUniversity.
Aug 22, 2021 11 tweets 2 min read
The term Hinduphobia is being deployed rather frequently in the U.S. and other western countries with sizable Indian diasporic population. The use is mostly coming from formations that want to shield the current political regime in India led by BJP/RSS!! 1/1 I have been thinking about this term a lot lately and I engage with the term seriously: the term is loosely deployed to suggest that there is a widespread hatred of Hinduism and Hindus in the west ( something akin to Islamophobia or anti-semitism loosely speaking).1/2
Jan 13, 2020 16 tweets 4 min read
1/16 One provision in Citizenship Amend. Act in India focuses on Overseas Citizens of India (OCI). #CAA is being challenged by people for linking citizenship to religion & its likely use for taking away citizenship from those who can't produce documents, particularly Muslims. 2/16 Here I want to focus on the OCI provision in #CAA and its linkages to diasporic politics.