Reclaiming the sublime

Abstract

The Currents section foregrounds the work of Indian scholars who examine the ramifications of state responses and counterresponses regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in December 2019. This amendment to the Constitution of India granted citizenship to persecuted minorities from three nearby countries-namely, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan-but not to those who were Muslim. The act brought into question not just the issue of barring certain refugees to the country but also the relationship of India's minorities with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party that is at the helm of a Hindu right-wing wave. The contributions focus on the implications of the amendments and the protests against them for minority and/or Muslim identities through a combination of historical, autoethnographic, ethnographic, media, and theoretical perspectives in the midst of growing religio-political communalization in the subcontinent.

Women at the margins: Experiences with spousal incarceration inIndia

“…Ever since the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has formed the Central Government in 2014, India has witnessed the rise of Hindu nationalism, peppered with anti‐Muslim rhetoric (Ansari & Chambers, 2022; Rahman, 2020). Under the two electoral terms of the BJP Government, India has transformed into a right‐wing nation state, which is not very accommodating of its minorities, particularly Muslims (Kaur, 2020), who are the largest minority group and constitute 14% of the overall population (Allarahamali, 2022). Muslims are likely to face surveillance, police action, and report lower confidence in the police (Hakeem et al, 2012).…”