The broadcast on Indian national television in January 1987 of the Hindu epic The Ramayana sparked the largest political campaign in post-independence times, led by Hindu nationalists. Arvind Rajagopal’s book…

This book explores the constraints which justice imposes on immigration policy, and argues for a set of policies which are distinct from those supported by either liberal nationalists or advocates…

This book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is…

As he did with television in Inside Prime Time and with the culture wars in The Twilight of Common Dreams, Todd Gitlin once again recasts the world readers think they…

Jacob Weinrib’s theory of public law elaborates on the idea of human dignity in order to illuminate and justify innovations in constitutional practice, including rights-based judicial review and proportionality. It…

Ahmad Fardid (1910-94), an ‘anti-Western’ philosopher, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, coining the term ‘Westoxication’. With thirteen interviews relating his colourful life and intellectual legacy, Mirsepassi…

Ahmad Fardid (1910-94), an ‘anti-Western’ philosopher, became the self-proclaimed philosophical spokesperson for the Islamic Republic, coining the term ‘Westoxication’. With thirteen interviews relating his colourful life and intellectual legacy, Mirsepassi…

This Element’s analytical system outlines structure and phrasing in sections of music without even perceptible meter. Instead of entrainment to meter, Hayslett posits that listeners perceive rhythm in similar ways…