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“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays (2025)
Journal Article
Babb, L. A., & Cort, J. E. (2025). The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 21(1), 1-20

Lawrence A. “Alan” Babb (1941-2023) was a leading anthropologist of South Asian religions, whose extensive scholarship on the Jains played a pivotal role in bringing the study of the Jains into the mainstream of South Asian Studies. His writings cons... Read More about The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays.

Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience (2024)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2024). Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience. Jaina studies, 19, 16-22

In museums and exhibitions, the Jaina tradition has generally been presented in stereotyped form. The approach of the Pure Soul exhibition at The Brunei Gallery SOAS was different. For the first time, philosophical and social differences within the J... Read More about Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History (2023)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2023). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History. Berliner indologische Studien, 26,

The concluding part of the essay Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhadeśa II presents illustrated sections on Indora, Māmoṃ, Thūbana, Bahorībanda, Seroṃna, Pacarāī, Golākoṭa, Mahebā and Bajarañgagaṛha, Devagaṛha and Būṛhī Canderī. It introduces the method of f... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History.

Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (2023)
Book
Flügel, P., De Jonckheere, H., & Söhnen-Thieme, R. (Eds.). (2023). Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions. Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

Jaina thinkers developed different perspectives on the relationship between the soul and the material non-soul. These perspectives can be categorised into two basic stances, namely classical and spiritualistic Jaina philosophy, each with its variants... Read More about Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions.

Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India (2023)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026

At the 2019 general election in India, the BJP succeeded in gaining more of the Dalit, Adivasi and OBC vote. This chapter highlights the everyday politics of social oppression and exploitation faced by Dalits and Adivasis in India. India is a society... Read More about Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India.

“Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77 (2022)
Journal Article
George, N. (2022). “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42(2), 470-488. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987957

Were the events of 1975–77 in Lebanon, commonly thought of today as an internecine sectarian war between Christians and Muslims, more comparable to the furies of revolution and counterrevolution? This article reframes the Lebanese National Movement's... Read More about “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77.

States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2022). States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises. Feminist Formations, 34(1), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0013

Drawing on personal teaching experience, this article considers the potentiality and pains of a pedagogic strategy that practises what José Esteban Muñoz calls a "methodology of hope" (2009). How can educators, particularly those located in the "enli... Read More about States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises.

The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2021). The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(7), 1380-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1986013

The article analyses the farm laws struggle in India which, at the time of writing (September 2021), has lasted more than a year. It aims to explain its unusually broad support base and to discuss the potential wider impact of the new social coalitio... Read More about The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India.

In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2021). In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests. Feminist Review, 128(1), 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789211013777

The trope of the repressive Muslim, obstinately attached to their regressive world views, recalcitrant antagoniser of modernity, has become a thoroughly familiar drama. Redundant spectacles abound: events often highly mediatised, substantiated by con... Read More about In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests.