The former Delhi Police employee has also emerged as the go-to man for the authorities to reach out to the agitating farmers.
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Dalits may be under-represented in mainstream politics, but in Punjab they have a rich tradition of religio-cultural assertion through the influential Deras.
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As the murder at Singhu border put the Nihangs in news, the warrior creed thrives at the symbol-laden chhaonis. Their austerity, discipline and martial history evoke both respect and fear.
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The politics of nostalgia involves mobilising the masses around the yearning for a glorious past brought alive in imaginations of the future.
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For the moment, the Lakhimpur Kheri crisis appears to have been defused. However, this may not mean much relief for the Yogi Adityanath government in the state.
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Should curricula not reflect the ‘truth’? And whose truth? Recent deletions and additions come wrapped in a concern for ‘heritage’, but are also dyed in a deep disquiet over other zones of contestation—caste and gender—beyond religion.
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Political parties look for alternate social engineering to woo voters in changed scenario.
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