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Indian Muslims amidst Hindutva Politics
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Indian Muslims amidst Hindutva Politics

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1016

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jose Abraham

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Guest Editor
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA 91182, USA
Interests: discourse on nationalism; religious identity; islamophobia; Hindutva

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

India has one of the oldest Muslim communities in the world. It has the third largest Muslim population and the second largest Shi‘i population globally. However, Muslims are a minority religious community in India, constituting less than 15% of the population. They are incredibly diverse, with differences in caste, ethnicity and language, as well as access to educational opportunities and political and economic power. The rise of Hindutva and its dominance in Indian politics since 2014 made Muslims an increasingly marginalized population in a Hindu-majority country. Their representation in state and federal government employment, paramilitary services and the Indian Police service is below the proportion of the population. They are suspected of their loyalty to the nation and disproportionately are the victims of communal violence. Communal politics spearheaded by Hindu nationalist parties have engaged in victimizing and othering India’s Muslim minority. Consequently, it has become suicidal for so-called secular and regional political parties and media to speak for the right of minorities, especially Muslims. Divisive rhetoric and Islamophobia challenge the foundations of democracy and secular fabric of India. This Special Issue attends to the narratives and experiences of Indian Muslims amidst Hindutva politics. In so doing, it hopes to amplify the minoritized voices of diverse Muslim communities in India and minority religious communities’ commitment to the values of secularism, democracy, freedom and justice.

Some potential topics for this special issue:

  • Criminalization of triple talaq;
  • Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir;
  • Introduction of the Citizenship Amendment Bill;
  • Ghettoization of Muslims;
  • Ban on hijab in schools and colleges;
  • Islamophobia in India;
  • Violence against Muslims in India;
  • ‘Love-Jihad’ conspiracy theories;
  • Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute;
  • Politics of cow slaughter;
  • Halal certification controversy.

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editors Dr Jose Abraham([email protected]) or to Assistant Editor Melody shi([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Dr. Jose Abraham
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • islamophobia
  • jihad
  • Hindutva
  • communal violence
  • secularism

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A Kashmiri Woman Stuck in Crossfire: Exploring the Impact of Militarisation on Everyday Lives in Farah Bashir’s Rumours of Spring
by A. S. Adish and Reju George Mathew
Religions 2024, 15(8), 970; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15080970 (registering DOI) - 10 Aug 2024
Abstract
Political conflict has plagued Kashmir, a Muslim-majority region of Hindu-majority India, ever since the partition. The crisis worsened by the end of the 1980s and has continued to disrupt peace in the valley to date. The conflict arguably entered a new phase as [...] Read more.
Political conflict has plagued Kashmir, a Muslim-majority region of Hindu-majority India, ever since the partition. The crisis worsened by the end of the 1980s and has continued to disrupt peace in the valley to date. The conflict arguably entered a new phase as the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was elected to power in 2014, which also joined the ruling coalition of the Jammu and Kashmir state in 2015 for the first time. Over this period, Kashmir’s resistance evolved into subtler forms, including cultural expressions like memoirs. Published in 2021, Farah Bashir’s debut work, Rumours of Spring, is a deeply personal yet undeniably political exploration of the crisis in Kashmir from its aggravated phase in the beginning of the 1990s. This paper argues that the nuanced depiction of the crisis in the memoir demands an intersectional reading of the traumatising impact of militarisation and militarism on Kashmir’s everyday life, especially given the subject position of the narrator as a Muslim woman. The works on militarisation by Jacklyn Cock, as employed by Samreen Mushtaq to analyse the situation in Kashmir, provide theoretical insights for this reading. Set in Kashmir’s identitarian conflict, the Muslim identity is central to the narrative. We argue that in Bashir’s memoir, religion finds a complex representation, with the Qur’an and Kashmiri folklore serving as respites in times of crisis, even as the fundamentalist factions contribute to their oppressive reality. Bashir’s work openly engages with the experience of being a Muslim in Hindu India. The paper also attempts to place the work in a larger corpus of life-writing by women in conflict zones, comparing the work with Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (2003), a Palestinian memoir by Suad Amiry. Full article
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