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Articles tagged as "India"

Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism

Mohammad Ali
March 1, 2023

Pluralism not only denotes a tolerance towards others, but also offers an opportunity to intermingle and exchange and thus mitigate difference.

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Smashing Modernity’s Idols and Redeeming our Past(s)

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Khan Shairani
February 17, 2023February 17, 2023

Historians’ work has to engage with the present because their work, in fact, never reaches the past. It is written for living and breathing people today and in the future.

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The Hindu Rashtra Comes of Age

Series: The Revoking of Kashmir's Special Status
Ather Zia
January 3, 2020January 5, 2020

In context of rising institutionalization of discrimination against Muslims, Kashmiris fear that Indian settler colonialism and dispossession are becoming increasingly real inside the valley. The question now is: will the world keep silent?

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What is so Special about Kashmir’s Special Status?

Series: The Revoking of Kashmir's Special Status
Abir Bazaz
November 12, 2019January 4, 2020

Though the Hindu and Muslim religious cultures in India and Pakistan offer us fantasies of Kashmir as either a sacred Hindu space or a lost Muslim paradise, the actual Kashmiri Hindu and Muslim religious culture affirms Kashmir as a heterodox and plural spiritual space.

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In Pursuit of Truth: Science, Tradition, and Renewal

Series: Madrasa Discourses
Dania Straughan and Mahan Mirza
June 29, 2017October 18, 2017

While religion, with its deep historical roots and foundational texts, may appear more infallible than science, can it too shift with new moral consensuses?

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