ReOrient
Volume 8 • Number 2 • Spring 2024
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ISSN 2055–5601 (Print)
ISSN 2055–561X (Online)
ReOrient
EDITOR
S. Sayyid, University of Leeds, UK
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
AbdoolKarim Vakil, Kings College London, UK
Uzma Jamil, McGill University, Canada
Haroon Bashir, Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK
EDITORIAL BOARD
Warren Chin, Kings College London, UK
Yasin Aktay, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
Ruth Mas, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Society, Freie Universität, Germany
Shaireen Rasheed, Long Island University, USA
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina, USA
Barnor Hesse, Northwestern University, USA
Nadia Fadil, KU Leuven, Belgium
Santiago Slabodsky, Hofstra University, USA
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Freie Universität, Germany
SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, USA
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Shvetal Vyas Pare, Flinders University, Australia
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Talal Asad, City University of New York, USA
Farid Esack, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University, USA
Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Brian Klug, St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK
Asma Lamrabet, Rabita Mohammadia of the Moroccan Ulema, Morocco
Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Galip Dalay, Al Sharq Forum, Turkey
Elena Arigita Maza, University of Granada, Spain
Karima Laachir, Australian National University, Australia
Ella Shohat, New York University, USA
Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
ReOrient will publish original articles in English of between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including bibliography). Submissions must not have been published or be under consideration elsewhere. All articles are submitted to blind peer reviewing by at least two referees. Final decisions on publication remain with the Editorial Board.
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Contents
Editorial – Hindutva and the Muslim Subject 142
Sheheen Kattiparambil
Articles
Islamophobia in India and the Racial State 153
Sheheen Kattiparambil
Hinduism and the Genealogy of Culture: Sovereignty, Religion, and Authority in India 174
Muhammed Shah Shajahan
Politics of Secularisation, Religious Conversion, And “Saving” the (Hindu) Daughter Under Hindutva: Re-reading the Hadiya Court Case 193
Sreenanti Banerjee
The Role of Performance in Constructing Muslim Citizenship in the 2019–20 anti-CAA Protests: New Trends in Indian Muslim Belonging Today 217
Jaclyn A. Michael
Global Hindutva and the Palestinian Cause 239
Abdulla Moaswes
Allah’s House to Domes of Secularism: Minoritization of Muslims in India 262
Thahir Jamal Kiliyamannil
Book Reviews
Özyürek E. Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory & Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany 286
Adam Sutcliffe
Olivia C. Harrison. Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France 290
Maxwell Woods
Review Article
Counterinsurgency Reconsidered 293
Warren Chin