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The Fate Of Muslims Under Soviet Rule : A Review
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May 28, 2023May 28, 2023BOOK REVIEW

The Fate Of Muslims Under Soviet Rule : A Review

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"Communism, as the logical outcome of materialism, cannot but be hostile to religion in all its aspects. Thus from the very beginning, the Communists aimed at the destruction of religious belief and worship in Soviet Russia." 
Halley Kalyan pens a review of “The Fate Of Muslims Under Soviet Rule” - a booklet about Soviet government rule in regions that had a significant population of practicing Muslims, by Erich W Bethman (1958); and highlights the shared antagonism towards religion (Hinduism in particular in the Indian context) between the Communist dogma and the Indian version of Secularism.

A Call for the Linguistic Decolonisation of Bharat
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November 1, 2022November 24, 2022COMMENTARY, ESSAY, PERSPECTIVE

A Call for the Linguistic Decolonisation of Bharat

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This essay investigates how the legitimacy of a language supports or facilitates symbolic violence and self-censorship among minority languages, as well as how language laws and practices legitimise languages and how they affect diverse social groups. It also considers what may be done to keep linguistic ideology as a multifaceted phenomenon.

ARE TRIBALS HINDUS?
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June 20, 2022June 20, 2022ESSAY

ARE TRIBALS HINDUS?

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In this essay, Dr. Pingali Gopal tries to understand how the narrative surrounding the continuing debate on the status of the tribals of India and how they connect to 'mainstream' Hinduism, which he believes is solely aimed at breaking India, is playing out in the legal, constitutional, social, and religious contexts.