...Ronojoy Sen Cricket, a colonial import, has swamped other sports in terms of popularity in India and across South Asia. Today, given the large number of people who live in the region, it is the world’s second most-watched sport after soccer. Due to this widespread appeal, cricket has become a huge...

... Janata Party (BJP). But in his third term, Modi’s wings have been somewhat clipped after the BJP failed to renew its majority and was forced to form a governing coalition with smaller regional parties. Foreign policy under Modi has shown more continuity with India’s traditional approach, but he now faces...

...Sonika Gupta India has hosted Tibetan’s government-in-exile for decades, but the disadvantages of stateless status have led to growing migration to other countries, adding to questions about the future of the Tibetan cause. There is a sense of precarity among Tibetans regarding their future...

...Rachel Berger Vegetarians developed transnational ties between India and Europe, sharing ideals of purity that also contributed to the formation of today’s Hindu nationalism. A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism , Julia   Hauser ( Columbia University Press , 2023...

.... In the late 1960s, seeking to reduce dependence on food aid from the United States, India adopted the Green Revolution (GR) in agriculture: a set of research and technology transfer initiatives that aimed to increase food production through the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and intensive irrigation...

...Itty Abraham India’s space program attracted international admiration in 2023 for becoming the first country to successfully land a craft on the moon’s south pole. The program is now in its sixth decade and stands as one of India’s most successful technology missions, not least for the hard...

...Krishnalal Shridharani Excerpts from an essay published by Current History in 1937. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 India Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru socialism independence anticolonial movement Americans, and, for that matter, Europeans often ask...

... countries with notable affirmative action policies shed light on this shifting terrain. India’s Supreme Court approved a constitutional amendment that added to the country’s reservations (or admissions quota) system for lower castes a new category of students: poor upper castes. Brazil’s legislature...

...Debjani Bhattacharyya In India, water infrastructure has long been central to state building. Rather than redistributing power, recent market liberalization measures have reproduced inequalities. Leela Fernandes’s Governing Water in India is a tour de force, analyzing the politics of reform...

...Pralay Kanungo India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party is pursuing a campaign to revise history and remove historic Islamic monuments from cities like Varanasi, known for its multicultural fabric. The city is multifaceted, multireligious, and multicultural, with a population that is 63 percent...

...Atreyee Sen The phenomenal rise of Hindu nationalism, and the implementation of a series of anti-minority decrees, has raised national and international concerns about the nature and culture of interfaith relations in contemporary India. While Hindu religious identities become increasingly...

...Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram India’s mainstream film industry has increasingly fallen under the influence of the Hindu nationalist ruling party and its agenda. But a thriving, multilingual independent sector is producing creative counternarratives. The two boys, whose families’ threadbare...

...Renu Addlakha This essay examines the engendering of disability in India over the past half a century through a reflexive lens; the author has been both an observer and participant in this process. The article looks at how women with disabilities have emerged as a distinct category in the different...

...Sufia Uddin Communities of landless Hindus and Muslims in the Sundarbans, a mangrove-forested river delta sprawling across the Bangladesh–India border, have common class-based grievances and concerns for the imperiled ecosystem that transcend their religious differences. Their shared beliefs...

... as a series of skirmishes continued. With authoritarian nationalists in charge in Beijing and New Delhi, backed by public opinion, compromise has proved hard to reach. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 India China border Himalayas Narendra Modi Xi Jinping In mid-June...

...Ashwini Deshpande The economic impact of COVID-19 has been much harder on those at the bottom of the caste ladder in India, reflecting the persistence of a system of social stigmatization that many Indians believe is a thing of the past. Untouchability has been outlawed since 1947...

... historians who contributed to a Hindu-centric idea of India. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 India history colonialism religion Hinduism The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Manan Ahmed Asif Harvard University Press, 2020 Manan Ahmed Asif...

...Xuefei Ren Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California China...

... Anirudh Krishna India social mobility inequality education employment jobs caste system health care women's rights Narendra Modi 123 How to extend equality of opportunity across a vast and growing population is one of the most important problems facing India to- day. The ideal...

... Lanka China India civil war reconciliation transitional justice Tamils Buddhists Muslims Mahinda Rajapaksa democracy constitution debt trap 137 Sri Lanka s ethnoreligious divisions are bound to continue as long as the likes of Rajapaksa dominate the island s political scene. Sri...