Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

Chatterjee, Sohini

doi:10.1080/03068374.2019.1663669

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“…In recent decades, the state has become synonymous with the rise in Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) (Guha 2013;Bhatt 2013), epitomized by the dominant far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the rise of Narendra Modi (former Chief Minister of Gujarat, current Prime Minister of India). Modi's India (like Modi's Gujarat) is characterized by neoliberal economic policy, dismantling of social welfare schemes, and discrimination of ethnic and religious minorities (Chatterji et al 2019). Although Modi received much acclaim for founding Asia's first Climate Change Department (in Gujarat), it is increasingly clear that many elite nationalists like Narendra Modi are unconcerned about climate change vulnerability or lack of adaptive capacity among marginalized groups.…”

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Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

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Vij

Ishtiaque

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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South Asia is a region uniquely vulnerable to climate-related impacts. Climate change adaptation in India and Bangladesh evolves using powering and puzzling approaches by policy actors. We seek to answer the question: how do powering and puzzling approaches influence the climate change adaptation policy design and implementation processes in Bangladesh and India? We adopted two strategies to collect and analyze data: semistructured interviews and discourse analysis. We found that adaptation policymaking is largely top-down, amenable to techno-managerial solutions, and not inclusive of marginalized actors. In Bangladesh, power interplays among ministerial agencies impair the policy implementation process and undermine the success of puzzling. Local-scale agencies do not have enough authority or power to influence the overall implementation processes occurring at higher scales of governance. The powering of different actors in Bangladesh is visible through a duality of mandates and a lack of integration of climate adaptation strategies in different government ministries. The powering aspect of India's various adaptation policies is the lack of collective puzzling around the question of differentiated vulnerability by axes of social difference. Paradoxically, India has a puzzling approach of hiding behind the poor in international negotiations. Moving forward, both countries should strive to have more inclusive and equitable adaptation policymaking processes that enable the participation of marginalized populations and represent their anxieties and aspirations. Identifying policy-relevant insights from South Asia using the powering and puzzling approaches can foster adaptation policy processes that facilitate empowerment, the missing piece of the adaptation policymaking puzzle.

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Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

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Vij

Ishtiaque

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…b) Another condition: if ǫ = 0 and Q = 0 then we see that from (43) and (44) the effective temperature and pressure are both zero. Zero temperature means that the RT type black hole (24) does not radiate and zero pressure means the volume-thermodynamic system becomes area-thermodynamic since horizons have nonzero area.…”

Section: Thermodynamics Of Robinson-trautman Type Metric With Cosmentioning

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Thermodynamics for the k-essence emergent Reissner–Nordstrom–de Sitter spacetime

Manna¹,

Majumder²,

Das

2020

Eur. Phys. J. Plus

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The k-essence emergent Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetime has exactly mapped on to the Robinson-Trautman (RT) type spacetime with cosmological constant Λ for certain configuration of k-essence scalar field. Theoretically, we evaluated that the thermodynamical quantities for the RT type emergent black hole is different from the usual one in the presence of kinetic energy of the k-essence scalar field i.e., the dark energy density. We restrict ourselves into the fact that the dark energy density (K) is to be unity, then the effective temperature and pressure both are negative for the RT type emergent black hole which implies that the system is thermodynamically unstable when the charge Q = 0 and the emergent spacetime is only dark energy dominated and it does not radiate when Q = 0. The thermodynamically unstable situation is physically plausible only when we consider spin degrees of freedom of a system. We have made this analysis in the context of dark energy in an emergent gravity scenario having k-essence scalar fields φ with a Dirac-Born-Infeld type lagrangian. The scalar field also satisfies the emergent equation of motion at r → ∞.

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“…Much has been written about what the party has done to transform India into an 'ethnic democracy' (Hindu-first) based on citizenship legislation, discourse, and informal political practice. Indeed, the BJP does not control enough parliamentary seats and state assemblies yet to erase 'secular' from the constitution (Jaffrelot 2017;Chatterji, Hansen, and Jaffrelot 2019;Adeney 2020). For the same reason, the BJP could not 'centre' the Indian constitution by weakening the constitutional position of the states.…”

Section: Party Contestation and The Breakdown Of The Territorial Consmentioning

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State nationalism and territorial accommodation in Spain and India

Cetrà

Swenden

2020

Regional & Federal Studies

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This article analyses the significance of polity-wide parties' understanding of state and nation for their ability and willingness to accommodate territorial diversity. To illustrate this point, we first introduce a typology containing four 'ideal-types' of state nationalism: dominant, integrationist, composite, and plurinational. Subsequently, we apply this typology to two plural and multi-level polities, Spain and India, during two critical junctures: their founding constitutional moments and more recent episodes of change associated with 'the Catalan question' in Spain and the rise of the BJP in India, respectively. Our analysis underscores how varieties of state nationalism inform the nature and evolution of the territorial constitution, in form and in practice, and the extent to which such shifts are linked to party competition and changes in the party system.

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Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

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Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

Powering and puzzling: climate change adaptation policies in Bangladesh and India

Thermodynamics for the k-essence emergent Reissner–Nordstrom–de Sitter spacetime

State nationalism and territorial accommodation in Spain and India

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