Decentering the Discourse on Love Jihad: The Multi-edged Sword of the Hindu Right
By Anshu Saluja In the midst of an unprecedented global health crisis, the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in…
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Tobias Kelly on Freedom of Conscience: PoLAR Author Interview
PoLAR Associate Editor Jennifer Curtis conducted an interview with Tobias Kelly, whose article “Justice, Conscience, and War in Imperial Britain”…
Anna Weichselbraun on Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors: PoLAR Author Interview
PoLAR editorial board member Andrea Ballesteros conducted an interview with Anna Weichselbraun, whose article “From Accountants to Detectives: How Nuclear…
Remembering Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry, an innovative and foundational contributor to so many areas in legal anthropology, died on September 8, 2020….
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
This PoLAR Online series, India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), is edited by Syantani Chatterjee and Natasha Raheja. The controversial Citizenship…
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): Citizenship and Belonging in India
By Syantani Chatterjee and Natasha Raheja The controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was signed into law by the Hindu nationalist…
Unwelcome Guests and Hostages: Minority Claims on the State
By Ghazal Asif and Natasha Raheja India’s controversial Hindu nationalist Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) expedites Indian citizenship for Pakistani Hindus…
The Darjeeling plains: Citizenship as Minority Disenfranchisement in a Border District
By Abhishek Bhattacharyya Although the Islamophobic CAA purportedly allows many non-Muslims excluded from the National Population Register and National Register…
The Usual Suspects
By Syantani Chatterjee We will ensure implementation of NRC in the entire country. We will remove every single infiltrator from…
Collective Willfulness: Refashioning Empowered Girlhood
By Karishma Desai The celebration of empowered girls is near ubiquitous across international development and humanitarian regimes. Marking girls…
