Presenter
sharoff Prakkash - SOAS, SOAS, University of London, London, United KingdomPanel
37 – Contentious Currents: Non-State Actors, Democratic Decline and Resilience in South AsiaAbstract
The paper concludes that the Indian religious ethnocratic project is based on biopolitical objectives and rationalities, which govern: Muslim bodies, economies, eating habits, citizenship status, marriage, and private lives, all of which are embedded in legal parlance in laws such as: the cow slaughter act, the anti-conversion act, and the citizenship amendment act. This paper is built on ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted between 2021 and 2023 in 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh, with 200 interviews in six cow-related lynchings, six anti-conversion cases, and 20 cases of police killings during the citizenship protests
