23. ‘Behind Notes Ban, Team Of 6 Worked Secretly At PM Narendra Modi’s Home: Report’, NDTV, 9 November 2016: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/who-knew-pm-narendra-modis-black-money-move-kept-a-closely-guarded-secret-1635822.
24. ‘RTI: Bank With Amit Shah as Director Collected Highest Amount of Banned Notes Among Coop Banks’, Wire, 22 June 2018: https://thewire.in/banking/bank-with-amit-shah-as-a-director-collected-highest-amount-of-banned-notes-among-dccbs-rti-reply.
25. ‘What demonetisation? BJP revenue grew 81% to Rs 1034 crore in 2016-17; Congress, others earned this much’, Financial Express, 11 April 2018.
26. ‘RBI data isn’t enough to argue if demonetisation was a success or failure’, Print, 7 November 2017: www.theprint.in/opinion/premature-argue-demonetisation-success-failure/9195/.
27. Sharad Raghavan, ‘Demonetisation a massive, draconian, monetary shock: Arvind Subramanian’, The Hindu, 29 November 2018.
7. Terror
1. Aditi Vatsa, ‘In Dadri, a daughter asks: “If it is not beef, will they bring back my dead father?”’, Indian Express, 26 December 2015.
2. ‘BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj says ready to kill and get killed for our mother, calls SP’s Azam Khan a “Pakistani”’, News18, 6 October 2015, https://www.news18.com/news/politics/bjp-mp-sakshi-maharaj-says-ready-to-kill-and-get-killed-for-our-mother-calls-sps-azam-khan-a-pakistani-1143939.html.
3. Aditi Vatsa, ‘Dadri lynching: One BJP leader calls for a mahapanchayat, another blames victim, family’, Indian Express, 2 October 2015.
4. Salman Ravi, ‘Why India man was lynched over beef rumours’, BBC News, 1 October 2015, www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34409354.
5. Kai Schultz, ‘Murders of Religious Minorities in India Go Unpunished, Report Finds’, New York Times, 18 February 2019.
6. Nandy, ‘Obituary of a Culture’.
7. ‘Bihar election is a fight between jungle raj and vikas raj, says Narendra Modi’, Mint, 8 October 2015.
8. The six states—and one union territory—are Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura.
9. Amar Diwarkar, ‘How “Cow Vigilantes” Launched India’s Lynching Epidemic’, New Republic, 26 July 2017, newrepublic.com/article/144043/cow-vigilantes-launched-indias-lynching-epidemic.
10. ‘Violent Cow Protection in India’, Human Rights Watch, 18 February 2019, www.hrw.org/report/2019/02/18/violent-cow-protection-india/vigilante-groups-attack-minorities#.
11. Muzaffar Raina, ‘Cow-carcass rumour fuels J&K flare-up’, Telegraph, 11 October 2015.
12. ‘Violent Cow Protection in India’, Human Rights Watch.
13. ‘Dalit Family Stripped, Beaten As “Gau Raksha” Vigilantism Continues’, Wire, 13 July 2016, https://thewire.in/politics/dalit-family-stripped-beaten-as-gau-raksha-vigilantism-continues.
14. ‘The Indian Dalits attacked for wearing the wrong shoes’, BBC News, 19 June 2018, www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-44517922.
15. Ibid.
16. Deep Mukherjee, ‘Alwar lynching: Rajasthan police close probe against 6 Hindu right-wing men named by Pehlu Khan’, Hindustan Times, 14 September 2017.
17. For a fascinating and detailed history of the effect of Indian vegetarianism on European thought, see Tristram Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: Vegetarians and the Discovery of India, Harper, London, 2006.
18. Kapil Komireddi, ‘Mercy Towards Animals’, Aeon, 26 June 2013, https://aeon.co/essays/mercy-toward-animals-runs-deep-in-asian-cultural-traditions.
19. Saba Naqvi, ‘The Hawk in Flight’, Outlook, 24 December 2007.
20. R.D. Thornton, William Maxwell to Robert Burns, John Donald Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh, 1979, p. 70.
21. ‘Rate of Unemployment in India Highest in 20 Years: Report’, HuffPost, 25 September 2018, www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/25/rate-of-unemployment-highest-in-india-in-the-20-years-says-report_a_23541136/.
22. ‘Hindutva Jihad: “If They Kill One Hindu, 100 Will Be…”’, Outlook, 27 Aug 2014.
23. Amy Kazmin, ‘Yogi Adityanath, a firebrand cleric polarising politics in India’, Financial Times, 4 March 2017.
24. ‘Who will be the next CM of Uttar Pradesh? Ahead of BJP announcement, here are a few names’, First Post, 15 March 2017, www.firstpost.com/politics/who-will-be-the-next-cm-of-uttar-pradesh-ahead-of-bjp-announcement-here-are-a-few-names-3335414.html.
25. ‘Yogi: Cows no less important than humans’, Tribune, 25 July 2018.
26. Basit Malik, ‘“Say, Pakistan Murdabad!”: A Reporter Recounts How a Mob in Delhi Assaulted Him When They Identified Him As Muslim’, Caravan, 19 June 2017.
27. Hari Kumar and Nida Najar, ‘Police in India Arrest Fans Celebrating Pakistan’s Cricket Victory’, New York Times, 21 June 2017.
28. Vidhi Doshi, ‘“How can they hate us so much?” asks father of Muslim teen brutally killed in attack on train in India’, Washington Post, 24 June 2017.
29. Tweet posted by @NarendraModi, 25 June 2017, https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/879082577730035713?lang=en.
30. Annie Gowen, ‘A Muslim and a Hindu thought they could be a couple. Then came the ‘love jihad’ hit list’, Washington Post, 26 April 2018.
31. BJP Leader, Activists Disrupt Hindu-Muslim Wedding Celebration in Ghaziabad’, Wire, 23 December 2017, https://thewire.in/communalism/hindutva-activists-disrupt-wedding-ghaziabad-clash-police-love-jihad.
32. V. Kumara Swamy, ‘Mob attack aborts inter-faith wedding’, Telegraph, 25 July 2018.
33. Sukrita Baruah, ‘Sent to protect her, UP cops beat woman, mock her for Muslim friend’, Indian Express, 26 September 2018.
34. Deep Mukherjee, ‘Rajasthan hacking: 516 people from across India donate Rs 3 lakh to Shambhulal Regar’s wife’, Indian Express, 14 December 2017.
35. ‘Rajasthan government wants students, teachers to learn about love jihad; here is how’, Financial Express, 19 November 2017.
36. Jeffrey Gettleman, ‘An 8-Year-Old’s Rape and Killing Fuels Religious Tensions in India’, New York Times, 11 April 2018.
37. Piyasee Dasgupta, ‘What Happens To The People Arrested For Insulting Modi?’, HuffPost, 24 April 2018, www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/04/23/what-happens-to-the-people-arrested-for-insulting-modi_a_23417412/.
38. ‘India’s ruling party ordered online abuse of opponents, claims book’, Guardian, 27 December 2016.
39. ‘After Incredible India snub, Snapdeal to cut ties with Aamir Khan’, DNA, 5 February 2016.
40. Vir Sanghvi, ‘Dilemma of an Indian Muslim’, Hindustan Times, 11 August 2007.
41. Raghu Karnad, ‘Indian Liberals Must Die’, NPlusOne, 12 September 2017.
42. ‘PM Modi follows 4 Twitter accounts that trolled #GauriLankesh’, Newslaundry, 6 September 2017, www.newslaundry.com/2017/09/06/modi-trolls-gauri-lankesh.
43. Raghu Karnad, ‘It’s Not What Modi Is Tweeting—It’s What He Is Reading’, Wire, 9 February 2017, https://thewire.in/politics/narendra-modi-twitter-trolls.
44. ‘Same group behind killings of Dabholkar, Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh; members linked to Sanatan Sanstha: Police’, Hindustan Times, 16 September 2018.
8. Vanity
1. ‘The world is looking at India with renewed respect and immense enthusiasm, says PM Modi’, Business Standard, 21 Nov 2014.
2. Iain Marlow, ‘Modi’s Trips Around the World Cost Indian Taxpayers $280 Million’, Bloomberg, 13 December 2018.
3. ‘FPIs stay bearish on India; pull out $5-bn in Oct so far’, Hindu Business Line, 28 October 2018.
4. Yuji Kuronuma, ‘India foreign direct investment growth slowest in 5 years’, Nikkei Asian Review, 5 July 2018.
5. Modi is currently fending off allegations that he struck the deal to help his cheerleader Anil Ambani. ‘4 puzzling questions about the Rafale deal’, Rediff News, 4 December 2017.
6. Saumitra Dasgupta, ‘Modi uncovers China e-visa surprise’, Telegraph, 16 May 2015.
7. Mahesh Vijapurkar, ‘Nehru declined offer of permanent U.N.’, Hindu, 10 January 2004.
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sp; 8. Ameet Dhakal, ‘Has Modi’s “Neighbourhood First” model forgotten about Nepal?’, Scroll, 24 September 2015, www.croll.in/article/757547/has-modis-neighbourhood-first-model-forgotten-about-nepal.
9. ‘UN: Nepal blockade puts millions of children at risk, BBC News, 30 Nov 2015: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34968252.
10. Utpal Parashar, ‘China announces fresh $146 million aid for Nepal’, Hindustan Times, 29 March 2015.
11. Elizabeth Roche, Pretika Khanna, ‘Pakistan JIT claims Pathankot attack staged, say reports’, Mint, 5 April 2016.
12. ‘Won’t engage with talent from neighbouring country in future: Karan Johar’, Hindustan Times, 19 October 2016.
13. ‘Myanmar lodges protest with India over border raid’, Frontier Myanmar, 17 September 2015.
14. Bernard Weinraub, ‘Israel and India: Long-Unhealed Rift’, New York Times, 22 December 1974.
15. Itamar Eichner, ‘From India with love’, YNet, 4 March 2009: https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3696887,00.html; ‘BBC poll shows support for Palestinian state’, BBC News, 19 Sep 2011: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14946179.
16. Mustafa El Feki, ‘An Indo-Arab blunder?’, Al Ahram Weekly, 17–23 February 2005.
17. ‘Israel-India Relations / Strong, but Low-key’, Haaretz, 1 December 2008.
18. Smita Nair, ‘Purohit planned Israel-based Hindu govt-in-exile, support from Thai contacts: ATS chargesheet today’, Indian Express, 20 January 2009.
19. ‘American Jewish group takes Indian Muslims to Israel’, 16 August 2007, Indian Muslims, www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/aug/15/american_jewish_group_takes_indian_muslims_israel.html.
20. Paul Marshall, ‘Hinduism and Terror’, Hudson Institute, 1 June 2004: https://www.hudson.org/research/4575-hinduism-and-terror.
21. Shrenik Rao, ‘Hitler’s Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India’s Nazi-loving Nationalists’, Haaretz, 14 December 2017.
22. James Legge, Faxian, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Cosimo, New York, 2005, p. 4.
23. Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, ‘Lee Kuan Yew and the Indian Romance’, The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 104, No. 3, July 2015.
24. Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Vol. I, Harvard University Press, 1976, p. 236.
25. Guha, India After Gandhi, p. 305.
26. Ranjit Kalha, ‘There is No Tibet Card for India to Play. Here’s Why’, Wire, 13 January 2017: www.thewire.in/external-affairs/india-has-no-tibetan-card-to-play-heres-why.
27. Jesse Johnson, ‘Japan, U.S., India to hold major naval drill off Okinawa starting Friday’, Japan Times, 7 Jun 2016.
28. Harsh V. Pant, Indian Foreign Policy: An Overview, Manchester University Press, Machester, 2017, p. 2.
29. Calum MacLeod, ‘China angry at Obama’s meeting with Dalai Lama’, USA Today, 21 February 2014.
30. ‘Met defends behaviour of Chinese torch guards branded thugs by Coe’, Guardian, 7 May 2008.
31. ‘English Rendering of Transcript of the special episode of Mann ki Baat: PM Shri Narendra Modi and US President Shri Barack Obama share their thoughts on Radio’, Press Information Bureau, 27 Jan 2015, http://pib.nic.in/newsite/mbErel.aspx?relid=114987.
32. ‘Pakistan-Russia hold joint military drill’, Times of India, 22 October 2018.
33. ‘Indian Army’s ammunition stock will exhaust after 10 days of war: CAG report’, India Today, 21 January 2017.
34. ‘China has quietly resumed its activities in Doklam’, Hindu Business Line, 26 July 2018.
35. ‘Status quo in Doklam: Sushma Swaraj’, Economic Times, 8 February 2018.
36. ‘India, with eye on China ties, bans Tibetans rally in New Delhi’, Reuters, 7 March 2018: www.reuters.com/article/us-india-china-tibet/india-with-eye-on-china-ties-bans-tibetans-from-holding-new-delhi-rally-idUSKCN1GJ1HP.
37. Jim Yardley, ‘India Tightens New Delhi’s Tibetan Districts on Eve of Summit’, New York Times, 28 March 2012.
9. Seizure
1. Letter from the University Grants Commission: https://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/0726695_UGC-Letter-Surgical-Strike-29-09-18.pdf.
2. ‘Surgical strike: Sena poster shows Modi as Ram, Sharif as Ravana’, Rediff News, 5 October 2016, https://www.rediff.com/news/report/surgical-strike-sena-poster-shows-modi-as-ram-sharif-as-ravana/20161005.htm.
3. Ajai Shukla, ‘Army silent as soldier, surgical strikes feature in BJP election posters’, Business Standard, 8 October 2016.
4. ‘Battle royale as political parties spar furiously over surgical strikes’, DNA, 8 October 2016.
5. ‘Surgical strike: Sena poster shows Modi as Ram, Sharif as Ravana’, Rediff News, 5 October 2016: www.rediff.com/news/report/surgical-strike-sena-poster-shows-modi-as-ram-sharif-as-ravana/20161005.htm.
6. Prakash Katoch, ‘Modi government politicized surgical strikes but did little for soldiers’, Asia Times, 4 October 2018, http://www.atimes.com/modi-government-politicized-surgical-strikes-but-did-little-for-soldiers/.
7. Ajai Shukla, ‘Army silent as soldier, surgical strikes feature in BJP election posters’, Business Standard, 8 October 2016.
8. ‘There is a need for another surgical strike: Army Chief Bipin Rawat’, Indian Express, 25 September 2018.
9. Pankaj Khelkar, ‘Army chief Bipin Rawat: Pakistan needs to be secular to stay together with India’, India Today, 20 November 2018.
10. Sudhi Ranjan Sen, ‘In an Unusual Move, Govt Supercedes Two Generals to Name Bipin Rawat Next Army Chief’, HuffPost, 5 December 2016, https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/12/05/in-an-unusual-move-govt-supercedes-two-generals-to-name-bipin-r_a_21620874/.
11. ‘Congress has humiliated CAG, Army and every democratic institution: PM Modi’, Times of India, 19 December 2018.
12. Suchandana Gupta, ‘Stand-up and clap when you see a soldier: PM Modi’, Times of India, 14 October 2016.
13. Devika Bhattacharya, ‘At ‘Bharat ki Baat’ event, PM Modi rips into ‘terror export factory’ Pakistan’, Times of India, 19 April 2018.
14. Ajai Shukla, ‘While “surgical strikes” were under way, govt cut Army’s disability pensions’, Business Standard, 10 October 2016.
15. Ajai Shukla, ‘Surgical Strikes: As Modi plays politics with Indian army, soldiers pay with their lives’, South China Morning Post, 29 September 2018, https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2166132/surgical-strikes-modi-plays-politics-indian-army-soldiers-pay.
16. ‘Defence ministry told army to build bridges for Sri Sri event’, Hindustan Times, 9 March 2016.
17. In 2011, Swamy published an article calling for the disenfranchisement of Indian Muslims: ‘Harvard writes off Swamy for anti-Muslim write-up’, Hindustan Times, 9 December 2011.
18. ‘Subramanian Swamy takes a swipe at Raghuram Rajan again; says rexit caused no effect on stock markets’, Financial Express, 7 September 2016.
19. Rajesh Mahapatra, ‘Raghuram Rajan breaks silence, says neither he nor RBI under him wanted demonetisation’, Hindustan Times, 5 September 2017.
20. ‘Who is Urjit Patel? Everything you need to know about the new RBI Governor’, Indian Express, 20 August 2016.
21. Anand Mishra, ‘Demonetisation: On Nov 7, it was Govt which “advised” RBI to “consider” note ban, got RBI nod next day’, Indian Express, 10 January 2017.
22. A.D. Shroff Memorial Lecture by Dr Viral Acharya, deputy governor of the RBI, https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=1066.
23. Ibid.
24. Mihir Sharma, ‘Why RBI Is Suddenly Standing Up to Modi—And What’s At Stake’, NDTV, 31 October 2018, https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/what-modi-vs-rbi-is-all-about-its-an-election-year-stupid-1940419.
25. A.D. Shroff Memorial Lecture.
26. Alasdair Pal, ‘Maverick accountant Gurumurthy shaking up India’s central bank’, Reuters, 30 November 2018, and ‘RBI likely to pay bumper interim dividend to help Modi government’, Reuters, 7 January 2019.
27. ‘What happened at Hyderabad Central University that l
ed to Rohith Vemula’s suicide?’, India Today, 18 January 2016.
28. ‘My Birth is My Fatal Accident: Rohith Vemula’s Searing Letter Is an Indictment of Social Prejudices’, Wire, 17 January 2019, https://thewire.in/caste/rohith-vemula-letter-a-powerful-indictment-of-social-prejudices.
29. Chandra Bhan Prasad, ‘But the Earth moves, and Rohith Vemula is a Dalit’, Indian Express, 17 August 2017.
30. Prasanta Chakravarty, ‘I Am a Professor. This Is How I Was Beaten Up at Ramjas’, NDTV, 23 February 2017, https://www.ndtv.com/blog/at-ramjas-they-tried-to-use-a-muffler-to-strangle-me-a-professors-blog-1662740.
31. ‘Delhi Police charges Kanhaiya Kumar, others in JNU sedition case’, Rediff News, 14 January 2019, https://www.rediff.com/news/report/delhi-police-charges-kanhaiya-kumar-others-in-jnu-sedition-case/20190114.htm.
32. Pavan Kulkarni, ‘History Shows How Patriotic the RSS Really Is’, Wire, 15 August 2018, https://thewire.in/history/rss-hindutva-nationalism.
33. Shreya Roy Chowdhury, ‘Scholarships owed to Dalit students: Rs 8,600 crore. What government has budgeted: Rs 3,000 crore’, Scroll, 12 March 2018, https://scroll.in/article/871448/scholarships-owed-to-dalit-students-rs-8600-crore-what-government-has-budgeted-rs-3000-crore.
34. Ritika Chopra, ‘Institutes of Eminence tag: HRD Ministry and PMO disagreed on crucial issues’, Indian Express, 28 August 2018.
35. ‘Does Modi want to hijack higher education?’, Rediff News, 5 September 2018, https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/does-modi-want-to-hijack-higher-education/20180905.htm.
36. Rupam Jain and Tom Lasseter, ‘By rewriting history, Hindu nationalists aim to assert their dominance over India’, 6 March 2018, https://in.reuters.com/article/india-modi-culture-specialreport/special-report-by-rewriting-history-hindu-nationalists-aim-to-assert-their-dominance-over-india-idINKCN1GI178.
37. Lizzie Wade, ‘South Asians are descended from a mix of farmers, herders, and hunter-gatherers, ancient DNA reveals’, Science, 18 April 2018.
38. Saradindu Mukherji, ‘A Case Study of Progressive History Writing’, India Facts, 19 June 2015, http://indiafacts.org/ncert-class-xii-textbook-a-case-study-of-progressive-history-writing/.
39. Akshaya Mukul, ‘Ancient Caste system worked well, ICHR head says’, Times of India, 15 July 2015.
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