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Sharik Laliwala

Caste census: Why the liberal intelligentsia’s opposition is misplaced

Why must the Indian state not have information about something as fundamental as caste, just as it collects data about region, language, religion, and gender?

Sharik Laliwala
· Oct 11, 2023 · 07:30 am
In Ahmedabad’s Juhapura, exploring the paradoxes of Muslim ghettoisation

Perplexing features of the area’s political economy are not separate from Gujarat’s long history of Hindu nationalism.

Sharik Laliwala
,
Christophe Jaffrelot
&
Priyal Thakkar
· Jan 07, 2021 · 09:00 am
How Muslims are creating a new vocabulary of secularism for Indian democracy

Indian Muslims have entered a post-Islamist phase, marrying a constitutional phraseology of freedom, justice and equality with religious notions.

Sharik Laliwala
· Feb 16, 2020 · 06:30 am