Religion Data of Census 2011: Jharkhand And Reversal of the imbalance
[contextly_sidebar id=”ODpef8oiZ4RV1sSb8hwNEfyDzVay2uKC”] Southeastern part of Bihar, comprising the Purnia region, and Jharkhand mark the beginning of the eastern border region of India that has been undergoing rapid religious demographic transformation for several decades. In the latest decade of 2001-11, the share of Indian Religionists More...
Religion Data of Census 2011: The Case of Bihar
[contextly_sidebar id=”M8GBspo3sePxzv6mtM4p2puexIQ4tA2e”] As we have said earlier there are two major stories emerging from the religion data of Census 2011. The first is the usual story of Muslims considerably More...
Rajiv and Narendra: A Tale of Two Mandates
“India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere, we are impatient. I am young and I too have a dream. I dream of an India, strong, independent, self-reliant and in the forefront of More...
Religion Data of Census 2011: II The Imbalance Worsens
In this second post on the religion data of Census 2011, we give the main national aggregate numbers about the changes that have taken place in the share of different communities during 2001-11, and try to put these More...
Contemporary Evangelism and the Resurrection of the Colonial Politics of Race, Caste and Religion
‘’The modern writing of Indian history developed during the last two centuries. The needs of these times had encouraged the adoption of certain attitudes and theories about Indian Past…….some of these stereotypes More...
Census 2011 Religion Data: Numbers Matter
Religion and Caste have been the two great determinants of Indian history, politics and social organisation. These two parameters are so important that no field level administrator can possibly do without knowing More...
Why the BJP Lost Bihar?
Many think that Modi and the BJP lost Bihar because the RSS chief made a confusing comment on the issue of Reservation Policy. Many attribute this statement was based on motives of internal warfare within the Sangh More...
Indian History Textbooks Are Needed To Be Rewritten Now
The debate over rewriting the history textbooks of India has been re-ignited and as usual emotions are running high where most of the people are not even aware about the issues at hand. But this has not prevented More...
Why PM Modi should Cancel his UK Trip Immediately
There are four good reasons for the PM to not go to the UK on 12 November: first, it is an insignificant country. Second, they just gave China’s Xi a royal welcome, and what they do for Modi will be limited in More...
The West and East Meet Only to Demonize the Hindu
Awards being returned, and of such acts planned and simply announced by the returnees on the national news media, reminds me of the Ramana Mahirshi-inspired Paul Brunton’s writing about artists and writers and More...