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[PDF] SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE: AN ANALYSIS OF HIS CONTRIBUTION IN THE INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE AND ITS CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
A Tiwari
… Influence of Reformers: Bose was deeply influenced by various social and political reformers, including Swami Vivekananda and Aurobindo Ghos. Their ideologies contributed to Bose's unique political vision, which combined traditional …
[PDF] Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus's Enneads
F Divino - Metaphilosophy, 2025
This article endeavors to conduct a comparative analysis between the philosophical systems of Plotinus and classical Sāṃkhya, two distinct philosophical traditions characterized by their substantial historical and cultural contexts. The primary aim of …
The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema
J Sarkar, A Sarkar - 2025
… He has published essays on Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. He has written an article on Dick Hebdige for the Oxford Bibliographies. His review “Re-Focus: The Films of Shyam Benegal” was published in the journal Studies in South Asian …
What Is Yogic Gnosticism? The Spiritual Exercise of Inner Sacrifice
KS Bouthillette - Metaphysics as Therapy, 2025
This chapter addresses the concept of Yogic Gnosticism, focusing on its historical roots and its marginalization in contemporary Yoga Studies. The author critiques the trend in modern yoga culture where physical practices and health benefits …
[HTML] Awakening to Happiness: Investigating the Impact of an Expanded Sense of Self on Psychological Well-Being
MWL Jamieson - 2025
This dissertation investigated the nature of happiness through a mixed-methods study of 497 participants, including 18 in-depth interviews with individuals assessed as being high in happiness as well as spiritual development. While conventional …
What Is Gnostic Philosophy? The Therapeutic Production, Transmission, and Internalization of Knowledge
KS Bouthillette - Metaphysics as Therapy, 2025
… The chapter highlights the role of taxonomies in gnostic philosophy, arguing that these systematic classifications are integral to spiritual rituals, not … This is the practice of yoga, and it is given theoretical expression in the philosophies of yoga …
[PDF] The psychological diversity in the treatment of mental disorders associated with technology
AE Abu-Dalu
… In the modern era, technology has become an integral part of our daily lives, with digital devices and social media intertwining with various … Techniques like yoga and deep breathing are effective tools for relieving stress and tension caused by …
[PDF] SUSTAINABLE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS: METHODS & PRACTICES
AL Khaleel - Board of Editors
… Research and entrepreneurial skill development form an integral part of many Higher Education systems in India, including associations with private … Preferences for age old practices of yoga, Ayurveda, naturopathy and holistic …
[PDF] Devising Smoking Gun Tests for Objectivity in Scholarship: Towards a Comprehensive Set of Indicators to Measure Objectivity in Scholarship
SR Mandavilli - International Journal of Innovative Science and …, 2025
The core objective of this paper is to develop guidelines for developing criteria also known as smoking gun tests for ascertaining and measuring objectivity, accuracy, precision, and rigour in scholarship. We naturally begin this paper by attempting to …
Albert Einstein, Swastika and Visuality: A Study of Exclusion within a University of Assam
P Borah - Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion …, 2025
The paper attempts to examine an image inside a private university in Assam, which carries a violent history of anti-Semitic genocide, repression and control. The application and alteration of a swastika inside a university space next to Albert …
[PDF] The Crucible of Bengal: Decoding the Political Culture of West Bengal
K Jha - 2025
The article" The Crucible of Bengal: Decoding the Political Culture of West Bengal" explores the complex web of political forces that have moulded West Bengal, India, going beyond a simple chronological account of events to analyse the fundamental …
[PDF] SPHERES AND SPECTRUMS
KK Jana, P Naskar, S Laha
… The second section deals with Socio-economic aspects, such as changing structure of Bengali middle-class, dynamics of urban growth, capitalist connotations in ‘Islamism and Hindutva’, heading through nature and spirit, industrialization and …
[PDF] Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
N Kaul, M Thornton - Review of International Studies, 2025
… This long-distance Hindutva nationalism has sought to make India synonymous with the Hindutva idea of India. In recent decades, a key … Hindutva activism in the diaspora has also pursued technological means such as setting up E-shakhas or …
The Halal Conundrum: Clash of Dietaries, Victual Politics, and Community Lives in Kerala's Past and Present
PKY Arafath - Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion …, 2025
… Till cultural nationalist Hindutva- Parivar (family) decided to get involved in the larger debate and weave its victual design through a local … ’s integrated social life, and it appears against the backdrop of neo-Hindutva’s pervasiveness in the state. It …
The confusion about conversion: Competing narratives and nationalist violence in India
C Mallampalli
This essay argues that the confusion surrounding religious conversion arises from how the different motives or methods of conversion are narrativized, especially in contexts heavily influenced by religious nationalism. Is conversion ‘sincere’, or is it …
Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Ram Temple in Ayodhya Fundraising Campaign
AA Zaytsev - Asia & Africa today, 2025
… The restoration of the temple is one of the main points of the Hindutva ideology, which has been dominant in India since 2014 after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power and Narendra Modi was appointed as Prime Minister of India. The …
Miya Poetry and identity politics: poetics of resistance in North East India
D Biswas - Asian Ethnicity, 2025
Resistance literature in third-world countries became the voice of dispossessed people against the cultural hegemony of colonial powers. However, in postcolonial Indian context, resistance literature has evolved into a powerful tool of political …
[PDF] Resisting the times: Reflections from case studies of critical voices and negotiations within public universities in India
MT Navani
India is poised towards a surge of massification in higher education (HE), promising democratisation of access, particularly to those historically denied access to educational opportunities on account of caste, class and religious identities. This …
Consuming Tamil Identity in Paris: Gastro-Cosmopolitanism and “Communitarian Cuisine” in Contemporary France
N Berger - Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, 2025
Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with members of the Tamil diaspora in the greater Paris region, I demonstrate the central role of food in expressing and transmitting Tamil ethnic identity through food consumption and culinary practices. I …
[PDF] Masculinity and Psychoanalysis: Karl Figlio in Conversation with Deborah Wright
DLS Wright
… music called Hindutva pop, essentially aimed at dehumanising Muslims and other minorities in India and calling for a Hindutva nation state… But since we were at the cusp of the Hindutva homecoming, I was impassioned to speak up. As the only …
[HTML] Gods in the World: Placemaking and Healing in the Himalayas: by Aftab S. Jassal, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024, Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 244 …
E Nesbitt - Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2025
… These include women’s greater access to education and the increasing political ascendancy of Hindutva with its anti-Muslim, anti-Dalit bias and … For anyone interested in the active promulgation of Hindutva, chapter 1 is especially relevant, as …
Book review: Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar, Maya, Modi, Azad: Dalit Politics in the Time of Hindutva
J Santhosh - 2025
… In conclusion, the book tends to overemphasize the agency of Hindutva forces while underplaying the internal contradictions within Dalit movements. It could have provided a more comprehensive perspective by delving deeper into emerging Dalit …
[HTML] Speaking with nature: rethinking environmentalism through Indian lens: Speaking with nature: the origins of Indian environmentalism, by Ramachandra Guha, London …
HS Komalesha - 2025
… Moving beyond conventional environmental heroes, he introduces KM Munshi, an early Hindutva ideologue who paradoxically championed afforestation while advancing nationalist rhetoric. Guha does not shy away from the contradictions …
Hindu nationalism in South India: the rise of saffron in Kerala: edited by Nissim Mannathukkaren, Routledge, 2024, 256 pp., A 218.40(hardback),A 196.80 (eBook)
DF Pal - 2025
… of Hindutva, or the violence committed by its adherents. Hindu Nationalism in South India is clear in its assessment that the rise of Hindutva in … empirics of Hindutva civil society in Kerala. What emerges then – by and large – is a strongly …
The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi. By TV Paul. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 280p.£ 22.99 cloth.
A Sajjanhar - Perspectives on Politics, 2025
Modi by TV Paul gives us invaluable context to this era of political discourse, providing a meticulously detailed analysis of India’s ongoing attempt to establish itself as a major power in the global arena. Spanning several decades of Indian …
Response to Anuradha Sajjanhar's Review of The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi
TV Paul - Perspectives on Politics, 2025
Response to Anuradha Sajjanhar’s Review of The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from …
The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India. By Anuradha Sajjanhar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 189p. 34.99 …
TV Paul - Perspectives on Politics, 2025
… relates to the avoidance of discussing international aspirations of the Hindutva movement. … The Hindutva movement had already taken strong roots in northern, central, and western … custodians, and the double-sided nature of Hindutva …
Response to TV Paul's Review of The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi's India
A Sajjanhar - Perspectives on Politics, 2025
TV Paul’s review captures many of the central arguments I aimed to convey, particularly the intricate relationship between populism, intellectual elites, and technology that has fuelled the rise of the BJP and the broader Hindutva movement …
Amplifying Unheard Voices: Exploring Representation Gaps in Indian Social Media Spaces
DC Sasidharan - Digital Citizenship and Building a Responsible Online …, 2025
With the emergence of new digital technologies and the enhanced efficacy of social networking platforms in offering interactive content sharing, revenue generation, and fame, social media (SM) has grown to become an indispensable part of human life …
1 'Cryptopolitics': Memory, Landscape, Identity
S Mukherjee
This chapter undertakes a textual discussion of Omair Bhat’s poetry in light of continuing political instability–that is, the militarization of India-administered Kashmir. The concept of memory–a recurring theme in Bhat’s poetry–is inextricably linked to …
