Gujarat
Rape under trial
What rape trials demonstrate about the failures of Indian law enforcement and criminal justice.
The Editors | Nov 04, 2020
How hate works
A new book profiles individuals who participated in the 2002 anti-Muslim Gujarat pogroms.
Rakesh Shukla | Jul 05, 2019
The neoliberal aftershock
How the 2001 Gujarat earthquake gave a fillip to Narendra Modi’s ‘Gujarat Model’.
Edward Simpson and Michele Serafini | Jul 28, 2015
Gujarat’s ‘Rangoon Wallas’
Historic links between Gujarati Muslim merchants and Burma point to an alternative vision of economic engagement in the region.
Ketaki Pant | Jun 26, 2014
Partition on the sand
A new book on the people of Banni, a desert region in a corner of Gujarat, examines them as a distinct cultural unit.
Nandita Bhavnani | Jun 10, 2014
Seductions of the Neoliberal Nation
Bollywood films present unexpected interpretations of the 2002 Gujarat violence
Oishik Sircar | Sep 15, 2013
Gujarat after two years of ‘normalcy’
A 2004 critique of the Gujarat carnage remains disturbingly relevant to the reality of the state today
Satish Deshpande | Jan 15, 2013
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