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The Indian state's majoritarian muscle flexing with the #CAA_NRC is arguably part of a longer process of creating a state primarily for the Hindu majority. My own (modest, localised) attempt at understanding this process is research into vigilantism /1/ http://thecityasariver.net/papers/immoral-times-vigilantism-in-a-south-indian-city/ …pic.twitter.com/ghjeDJvpjQ
In the essay Immoral Times: Vigilantism in a South Indian City, I explore moral policing in #Mangalore /
#Mangaluru. Drawing on material gathered during 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2011-2016 I argue that /2/
Neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism… complement one another as they both see divisions within society as unnecessary, if not pathological, and create bounded internal and external realms /3/
However, whereas the individualism celebrated by economic liberalism offers ‘freedom’ (whilst holding the market supreme and punishing those who disrupt it), the individual within a majoritarian vision is always subordinated to the good of the Hindu community /4/
As such, there is an ethical tension at the heart of this Hindu majoritarian and market-led development project: the continuing ‘opening-up’ of the Indian economy has also opened-up ethical questions /5/
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