Saarang Narayan

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[South Asian Studies Association of Australia @SouthAsiaAU]

New in South Asia: Neha Chaudhary on how the RSS turned the Emergency into a founding myth of democratic legitimacy, propaganda as memory-making.

https://t.co/fY3dp0OBat

#RSS #Emergency #SASAA

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Open Access | The Sangh is neither infinite nor unknowable. A special investigation that Felix Pal helped lead, conducted over a period of six years, with data now housed at Science Po’s Centre de recherches internationales, and fact-checked and released by The Caravan, has constructed the world’s first network map of the RSS, revealing over twenty-five hundred organisations with concrete, traceable, material ties leading to the Sangh.

What the world’s first network map of the RSS, revealing over twenty-five hundred organisations with concrete, traceable, material ties leading to the organisation, tell us about how the Sangh functions, Felix Pal (@FelixPal8) explains: https://t.co/OolKtfVM69

Explore the network map here: https://t.co/OxrS9glyI7

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The article (which, btw, cites where @narendramodi got his #extra2ab from) is fully open access. No paywalls to jump over or institutional logins needed...

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Extremely delighted to share with Twitter (currently X) that my article on one of teh Sangh's most active yet under-the-radar ideologues has FINALLY been published in Globalizations!
https://t.co/Gzi8oAvsbX

[The Quint @TheQuint]

Hindutva has entered consumerism, moving from ascetic-themed brands to radical start-ups.
Brands like Native Heads openly sell apparel with slogans like ‘Sea, Sun & Fascism’ and images of Godse, driven by a hyper-masculine fantasy. But what does this reveal about saffronisation of brand's core identities today in the market? By @saarangnarayan

Read here: https://t.co/v9fXsDQdXT

[The Quint @TheQuint]

Sanatan Store, with its tagline “Style your Sanskriti”, offers a 10% discount to first-time customers who use the code “JAISHREERAM” at checkout!, writes @saarangnarayan https://t.co/6gdk8OwgGS

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@HitchhikerQ Kaunsi line mein?

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Not that I'm here often, but happy to share that @NehaCha66808523 and I got published in MAS! https://t.co/dfnStFOffv

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@NehaCha66808523 just debuted!

[@IRASP_UWA @IRASP_UWA]

* New Paper Alert*
Our new colleague, #FelixPal, & co-author, Neha Chaudary (@Cambridge_Uni), have a new paper,
Leaving the #Hindu #FarRight, in @southasiajsas
#HinduNationalism #Indian #Politics #RSS
@UWAresearch @colmer_tim @ProfChakma @perth_meso_dr
https://t.co/hG2V790Jlp

[Saarang Narayan @saarangnarayan]

@sagarcasm So supporting Pakistan in this match is the same as supporting India. I like this way of thinking unironically.

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@udaychopra Why not a Zizek supporter tho?

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Am I seeing things or is Uday Chopra really prompting a debate on neo-Hegelianism and the Žiž?

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What makes this funnier is that he is the only Hindu Nationalist I've come across who has made sincere attempts to engage with Marxist and communist literature in his lifetime. One can only imagine the state of other Hindutva-types and their understanding of Left politics.

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"I for one have tried for the last forty years to understand what precisely the meaning of ‘socialism’ is. I have not been able to understand so far" said D.B. Thengadi, a tall TU leader of the RSS. Yet 40% of his speeches&writings consist of deriding socialist and Left politics.

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@RitikaM07435068 @brownhistory_ Well technically Narayan/Narain isn’t a last name. It’s a title used as a middle name. Also, standardisation of english spellings didn’t happen overnight. Even today some distant relatives in my father’s family use the Narain spelling; some of my grandfather’s papers also use it.

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@nandinisgTOI @iamrana This isn’t a document for permission to sit on a chair! It’s a seat at the local council, i.e Kursi Nashin (holder of a seat) in the brit admin’s office in Delhi. Ram Narain would’ve been some sort of official at the local magistrate’s office. Like MLA or MLC in today’s time.

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@iamrana This isn’t a document for permission to sit on a chair! It’s a seat at the local council, i.e Kursi Nashin (holder of a seat) in the brit admin’s office in Delhi. Ram Narain would’ve been some sort of official at the local magistrate’s office. Like MLA or MLC in today’s time.

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@NiradChaudhuri @brownhistory_ “Dehli” was a common spelling and reflects the pronunciation in Urdu/Hindi that other colonial docs also used.
Can’t say much about the font apart from the fact that all other examples of Kursi Nashin docs have the same font. I have also seen it in other colonial docs.

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@brownhistory_ n/n Ram Narain was part of what have been called the 'collaborators of the Raj' in India; a class of Indians who held administrative posts and carried out day-to-day affairs of the colonial admin. It was through the efforts of such men that the British were able to rule India.

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@brownhistory_ 4/n This document was proof that the recipient was a member of the local administrative council or body and had the right to sit at the administrative table. Think of it like how members of legislatures have seats in the local council today.