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Remaking Indian Secularism: The Fearless Grannies (Dadis) of Shaheen Bagh

Julia Kowalski
May 19, 2020January 24, 2024

In reframing the links between gender, kinship, and citizenship, Shaheen Bagh’s protesters are remaking the definition of secularism in India.

India’s Winter of Protests: A Potential Constitutional Crisis in the Making

Series: India's Winter of Protest

Susan Ostermann
May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

The question that activist lawyers would like to get before the Indian Supreme Court is, in some ways, a simple one. Is the government allowed to discriminate on the basis of religion?

Who Are We the People? Unpopular Sovereignties in the United States and India

Series: India's Winter of Protest

Richard Amesbury
March 31, 2020May 4, 2020

Who are “we the people”? What makes this question puzzling is that it cannot, without circularity, be answered democratically, by appealing to the will of the people.

India's Winter of Protest Articles

Remaking Indian Secularism: The Fearless Grannies (Dadis) of Shaheen Bagh

India’s Winter of Protests: A Potential Constitutional Crisis in the Making

Who Are We the People? Unpopular Sovereignties in the United States and India