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Contributor to Reporting Guide on Hindu Nationalism, produced by the South Asia Scholar Activist Collective, 2024
India’s Ayodhya Temple Is a Huge Monument to Hindu Supremacy, Time, January 2024, here
How India’s Hindu Nationalists Are Weaponizing History Against Muslims, Time, October 2023. here
Contributor to Religion Link’s Hindu Nationalism Source Guide (May 2023)
Caste discrimination laws remain fraught. Here’s why they shouldn’t be. (co-authored piece). Religion News Service, April 2023. here
Hindutva Appropriations of Indigeneity. The Immanent Frame, October 2022, here
The Edison bulldozer scandal is a wake-up call for people to learn about Hindutva hate. New Jersey Star-Ledger, September 2, 2022. here (non-paywalled)
“Decolonizing” Indians through Hindutva Ideological Control. Shuddhashar 29, May 2022, here (translated into Malayalam)
Caste Control: Towards a Frank Reckoning of Who Represents Hinduism in History, Canopy Forum, March 9, 2022, here
North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks, Religion Dispatches, October 19, 2021. here
What the myth of ‘love jihad’ tells us about the Hindu Right, Scroll.in. September 27, 2021. here
Hindu Supremacists Threaten Academic Freedom in the United States. Academe by AAUP, September 18, 2021, here
Hindutva’s Threat to Academic Freedom (co-authored piece). Religion News Service. July 7, 2021. here (republished in the Washington Post)
The Hindu Right Chokes Academic Freedom. Academe by AAUP. June 14, 2021. here
The Living Mahabharata. Aeon. November 5, 2020. here
Hate Male. The Revealer. July 14, 2020. here
Hindutva: la politica nacionalista del odio que recorre india (Hindutva: The Nationalist Politics of Hate Sweeping India), CIDOB’s International Yearbook. July 2020. here
Exclusion, Affect, and Violence in the Many Sites of Indian History. Indian Cultural Forum. June 9, 2020. here
The Ayodhya Verdict is a Cornerstone of the Hindu Rashtra. The Caravan. December 6, 2019. here
Rediscovering Forgotten Indo-Persian Works on Hindu-Muslim Encounters, with Fabrizio Speziale. The Wire. May 2019. here
Anti-Semitism of Hindu Nationalists. India Abroad and Scroll. Nov 2018. here and here
Silencing Scholarly Voices. The Wire. August 2018. here
Silencing Sita. The Caravavan. June 2018. here
Many Criticisms of Rama. The Wire. April 2018. here
Pakistan’s Indian History. Newsweek Pakistan. March 2018. here
Monumental Debate: The Taj Mahal. BBC World Histories Magazine. February/March 2018: 8–9. here
Why Aurangzeb’s name should not be used as an insult. DailyO. December 2017. here
Taj and Bigotry. Indian Express. October 2017. here
India at 70: Why Hindu Nationalists are Afraid of the Mughals. DailyO. Aug 2017. here
Censoring Indian History. History Today. August 2017. here and pdf here
Modern Politics in Premodern History. Scroll. May 25, 2017. here
A Much-Maligned Mughal. Aeon. April 5, 2017. here
The Right’s Problem with History. DNA India. October 26, 2016. here
The Great Mughal Whitewash. India Today. March 10, 2016. here
It is High Time to Discard the Pernicious Myth of India’s Medieval Muslim ‘Villains’. The Wire. January 9, 2016. here
What We Can Learn From India’s Medieval Past.” The Wire. September 20, 2015. here