The former Delhi Police employee has also emerged as the go-to man for the authorities to reach out to the agitating farmers.
Dalits may be under-represented in mainstream politics, but in Punjab they have a rich tradition of religio-cultural assertion through the influential Deras.
As the murder at Singhu border put the Nihangs in news, the warrior creed thrives at the symbol-laden chhaonis. Their austerity, discipline and martial history evoke both respect and fear.
The politics of nostalgia involves mobilising the masses around the yearning for a glorious past brought alive in imaginations of the future.
For the moment, the Lakhimpur Kheri crisis appears to have been defused. However, this may not mean much relief for the Yogi Adityanath government in the state.
Should curricula not reflect the ‘truth’? And whose truth? Recent deletions and additions come wrapped in a concern for ‘heritage’, but are also dyed in a deep disquiet over other zones of contestation—caste and gender—beyond religion.
Political parties look for alternate social engineering to woo voters in changed scenario.
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