eventually involving leaders such asNana Sahib,Tantia Tope, andLakshmi Bai, the rani (“queen”) of Jhansi. Lakshmi Bai in particular became a legendary symbol of resistance against British rule; after the British attempted to annexJhansiusing the pretext of thedoctrine of lapse, Lakshmi...
There have been serious questions raised about India's secularism since its independence in 1947. Such questions have gained new urgency with the rapid rise of Hindu Nationalists and theelection of BJP leader Narendra Modiin 2014. Serious doubts about India's claim of secularism were articulated we...
Government officials have claimed that the assault on the Police Training College was carried out by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) Al Alami, an offshoot of the banned LeJ. According to Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, “The attack was carried out by LeJ AL Almai originally, despite...
The British established a Muslim college at Aligarh, near Agra, which was designed to impart Western education to Muslims while at the same time emphasising their Islamic identity. This college, later called Aligarh Muslim University, became an ideological centre whose influence radiated far beyond th...
Sreeja Nair, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, e-mail: sreeja.nair@u.nus.edu Navarun Varma, Residential College 4, National University of Singapore, e-mail: navarun@nus.edu.sg Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Ins...
Walter Immerzeel, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. e-mail: w.w.immerzeel@uu.nl Daanish Mustafa, King’s College London, London, UK. e-mail: daanish.mustafa@kcl.ac.uk Luna Bharati, International Water Management Institute, Nepal. e-mail: l.bharati@cgiar.org ...
Richard Black, College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, e-mail: r.black@bham.ac.uk Corresponding Author Soumyadeep Banerjee, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, e-mail: soumyadeep.banerjee@icimod.orgYou...