Orientalism’s Hinduism, Orientalism’s Islam, and the Twilight of the Subcontinental Imagination

Using the figure of the ethnic Pathan/Pashtun as a trope in South Asian culture, this essay provides a genealogical account of the modern emergence of Hindu–Muslim “religious” conflicts played along the lines of nation-thinking in the Indian subcontinent. This modern phenomenon begins in the late 18...

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Main Author: Anustup Basu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-08-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/8/1034