The middle class has acted as an agent of political change in India. The first instance of this was when they provided leadership to the national movement and drove the agenda of independence. Since ...

School textbooks have become the latest battleground for Hindu nationalism in India, as education officials have deleted key passages about Muslim rule during the Mughal empire. The textbooks, ...

About a month ago, a video emerged of an Indian teacher telling students to slap a 7-year-old classmate. The boy had gotten his multiplication tables wrong, but his real crime was being an Indian ...

AHMEDABAD, India — Hindu nationalism, once a fringe ideology in India, is now mainstream. Nobody has done more to advance this cause than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of India’s most beloved and ...

The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy. By Rahul Bhatia. Abacus; 352 pages; £25. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in November; $32 It is not uncommon for poor Indians ...

The killing of a Canadian Sikh leader, carried out by what Canada described as Indian government agents, occurred amid widening divisions in the diaspora. By Norimitsu Onishi and Vjosa Isai Norimitsu ...