Seeing, Speaking and Trawling like an Authoritarian State

 My tribute to and critique of Jim Scott's Seeing Like a State, just out in Journal of Peasant Studies

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/28346955.2026.2680405?fbclid=IwY2xjawSYkSxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBTSlJkeDJmSFFLNjNJYmlnc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnRgxB5DCD4n5kEoE0a_FZdJIykZdXuUu9PkZ2Ra5IxbhHqpWOmBUMOBagKe_aem_iVkRB8o3e7296nYh9PUXAg

Academic Freedom in South Asia Requires a Regional Canvas

https://thewire.in/education/academic-freedom-in-south-asia-requires-a-regional-canvas-heres-why

नक्सलवाद का अंत, और जवाबदेही भी ख़त्म!

 https://thewirehindi.com/327308/the-end-of-naxalism-the-end-of-accountability/

The End of Naxalism: The End of Accountability

https://thewire.in/rights/the-end-of-naxalism-the-end-of-accountability 

Empathy without Illusions: Andre Beteille and Sociology as a Vocation

https://www.theindiaforum.in/society/empathy-without-illusions-andre-beteille-and-sociology-vocation?fbclid=IwY2xjawQehAtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwa1pYTVFtWlB0cUxqZ2phc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnxAhbFOXWkmogtm7k2jBXqWrjnyt_9VlMb5-LEftrOjbx9M-yT2T_vewZ3Q_aem_Jdaw8cPXYe55SVXdFF5rZA

Prof. Sundar: Almost Every Institution in India Has Been Subverted to Advance a Supremacist Agenda

https://www.populismstudies.org/prof-sundar-almost-every-institution-in-india-has-been-subverted-to-advance-a-supremacist-agenda/

In this interview with the ECPS, Professor Nandini Sundar (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University) delivers a stark assessment of India’s institutional trajectory under the BJP and its ideological parent, the RSS. Her central claim is unequivocal: “Almost every institution in this country has now collapsed, or has been subverted, in order to further the supremacist agenda.” She situates current developments within the longer history of Hindutva ideology, emphasizing the RSS’s founding goal of a Hindu supremacist state. Professor Sundar argues that a narrative of majoritarian victimhood underpins historical revisionism, institutional capture, and restrictions on academic freedom. She also highlights transnational pressures, noting that a “very active Hindutva diaspora” has targeted scholars abroad, constraining research and debate globally.

Inside Modi's Assault on Academic Freedom

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/977945