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- Title
Islamophobia in India and the Racial State.
- Authors
Kattiparambil, Sheheen
- Abstract
This article focuses on the relationship between nation-making and the emergence of Islamophobia in India. Studies on anti-Muslim violence and Islamophobia in India either tend to dismiss the concept or limit its deployment by identifying it within the actions of Hindu nationalist groups situating their rise as an exception to India's secular and multicultural trajectory. Premising on the idea that Islamophobia should be understood as the negation of Muslim political subjectivity this article argues that Hindutva is not an aberration. Rather, it is a continuation of the Indian nation-making project with the Muslim placed as the other of this project. Further, the article frames India as a racial state and this argument would include identifying its systemic nature by looking at the sections of the Indian constitutions and constituent assembly debates. Thus, the Indian state will be understood not as a mere facilitator but as an embodiment of Brahminical hegemony that generates racial conflict and divisions and attempts to exclude or eliminate Muslimness through homogenizing or marginalizing processes.
- Subjects
INDIA; ISLAMOPHOBIA; INDIAN Muslims; MUSLIM identity; HINDUTVA
- Publication
ReOrient, 2024, Vol 8, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
2055-5601
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13169/reorient.8.2.0153