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A State in Exigency: India's Modern Nexus with Nationalism and Democracy
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posted on 2020-03-02, 22:02 authored by Tanzeem AhmedTanzeem Ahmed, Tanay Choudhury, Pritam DasWith the nationwide discontent against the
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA, 2019), which allows citizenship on the basis of
religion to six non-Muslim communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Bangladesh, and coupled with the exercise of National Register of
Citizens (NRC) that has been allegedly said to be an exercise in targeted
exclusionary politics against the Muslim population in Assam and as well as the
pan-Indian Muslim populace, the Indian government today seems to stand on thin
ice when it comes to justifying their stance on grounds of secularism. The
expectation of the government withdrawing the CAA is absolutely futile. Rather,
the government has made up its mind to decisively push through this crisis, by
using all of state apparatuses to establish the state’s sovereign right to
govern its population. By and large, India as a pillar of global democracy is
facing an exigency of its own. The objective of this piece is to observe a
novel trend of nationalism as a concept subsuming democracy in itself slowly
and subtly in the age of neo-liberal democratic paradigm. In particular,
India’s modern nexus with democracy and nationalism is explored while glancing
back in history in order to understand the origins of Indian nationalism.
Funding
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Declaration of conflicts of interest
No conflicts of interestCorresponding author email
tanzeemahmed@ymail.comLead author country
- India
Lead author job role
- PhD Student
Lead author institution
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)Human Participants
- No
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