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		<title>The Winding Road From Somanatha To Ayodhya Or How Colonial Historiographies Continue To Bewitch, Bewilder and Bedevil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of the dominance of &#8230; &#8216;fundamentalist&#8217; knowledge at the level of the establishment and those in power &#8230;[they] find themselves &#8211; in spite of all the changes of the past centuries &#8211; moving on a stage where history is repeating itself with just one objective; the continual actualization of the past. Adonis, Arabic Poetics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hindu Right Sings The Blues Or How The Fear Of The Inconsequential Pervades The Soul Of The Righteous</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A certain group of self appointed guardians of the faith are up in arms over an animated movie called Sita Sings The Blues in which graphic artist and animator Nina Paley weaves a dark moment of abandonment in her persona life into the story of Sita&#8217;s repeated abandonment by Ram, the man she is devoted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idea Of India Project Update: With The Passing Of The Monsoon A Return To Maharashtra</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am now in the final few weeks of this stage of the The Idea Of India project and focusing on key sites and stories from the state of Maharashtra. Specifically, I have just arrived in the city of Aurangabad. My journey in Maharashtra so far, which began some weeks ago, began in Pune and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continuing The Search For The Female Sufi Saints And Finding The Business Of The Blessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Project Progress Updates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence of new money from the Gulf is vividly evident at the shrine of the female warrior saind Beema Biwi. It is evident in the large, ostentatious and garishly pink structure that now surrounds what was once a small shrine. The reasons for the absence of such vendors of devotional goods became evident to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hindus Live In Small And Dark Houses Or Finding The Roots Of War In Textbooks &#8211; The Pakistan Episode</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The minds of children are usually shut inside prison houses, so that they become incapable of understanding people who have different languages and customs. This causes us to grope after each other in darkness, to hurt each other in ignorance, to suffer from the worst form of blindness. Religious missionaries themselves have contributed to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Temple Where I Begin To Understand That Neither Hindu Nor Muslim Means What We May Believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hindu temple contains two shrines, both to men who were once Muslims. As I write last statement this I realize that the two religious categories mentioned here - Hindu and Muslim actually make little sense. The fact remains that neither the word Hindu nor the word Muslim used here describes a set of clear, precise, differentiated, and orthodox ideas of the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Salvation Of The Lunatic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His clairvoyance resulted in his being consigned to a lunatic asylum where he languished for nearly sixteen years. The news of his miracles however spread far and wide and the king Raghoji Rao, a devote Hindu who also become a devotee, finally ordered his release. Today his shrine on the outskirts of the town of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Monsoon Washes Me To Maharashtra&#8217;s Eastern Horizons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monsoon came with the shock of a slap, the walls of rain ensuring that I was left staring out of my hotel window for nearly three days straight. And though beautiful, and reminiscent of the joys of childhood, the monsoon rains for a photographer are nothing but a dead stop. With life in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thangals And Way Of The Other Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be little written about the Thangals of Kerala. Professor Hussain Randathani tells me that there is some original research that has been done on this line of Muslims in Kerala, but that most of it is in Malayalam and hence inaccessible to me.  Islam in its Persian-Arabic attire failed to make much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Goddess Of The Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some days later, there was a wild dance of the elements in Ponnani sea. The heavy clouds burst and brought the heavens down to meet the sea, which reached up and met it halfway, rising in mountainous waves&#8230;A fishing boat overturned. The sons of Ponnani were thrown into the water looked around in terror. All [...]]]></description>
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