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Jamaat-e-Islami activists carrying the party’s election symbol at a rally in Dhaka in July 2025. The most debated development ahead of Bangladesh’s upcoming general election is the formation of an alliance between the Jamaat and the National Citizen Party (NCP), a youth-led political force born out of the July 2024 uprising.
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Himal Interviews: India’s laws are being weaponised against Muslims
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In early and medieval India, identities were deeply local and fragmented along the lines of region, caste, tribe, language and kinship. Even widely shared cultural practices and texts suggest commonality only among elites, not the broader population.
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Namit Arora and Romila Thapar on how identities in early and medieval India were formed, contested, and why a shared sense of “Indianness” may be a colonial-era development
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