This week at Himal
As India goes to the polls, our special series, “Modi’s India from the Edges”, continues, presenting regional perspectives on Narendra Modi’s decade in power.
India’s ruling BJP claims to have overcome the “tyranny of distance” that has plagued the Northeast but its politics have created greater division within the region, as the Manipur crisis shows
This week at Himal
This week, as India prepares for its gargantuan national election, we kicked off ‘Modi’s India from the Edges’, a special Himal Southasian series bringing you
Mired in economic and internal crises, Pakistan is primed for normalisation and trade with India – but Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, beholden to anti-Muslim politics, is failing to seize the chance
A special series on what Narendra Modi’s decade in power has meant for Southasia, with perspectives from neighbouring countries as well as Indian territories beyond the BJP’s power base
This week at Himal
Starting next week, and running through the upcoming Indian national election, Himal Southasian will be bringing you Modi’s India from the Edges, a series where
Couples in inter-caste and inter-faith relationships continue to battle discriminatory societal attitudes and legislation – and the Uniform Civil Code could make things worse
This week at Himal
This week, Jeff Joseph writes about Nepal’s inescapable trap of migration, agriculture and climate change – with farmers driven to migrate due to low agricultural incomes,
Three recent volumes show historians moving beyond assumptions of a bounded Subcontinent, contextualising the 20th century by centring regional and local politics that complicate nation-state narratives
