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Small linguistic tricks can have big footprints. This book examines how India's current Hindu nationalist government uses language as a weapon against its Muslim citizens. Each chapter provides a discursive history of matters that have been a source of conflict between Hindus and Muslims in India, highlighting the potent relationship between language and politics. The book explores four issues, Ramajanmbhoomi temple, Muslim Personal Law as it pertains to Indian Muslim women, Kashmir and revocation of Article 370, and Citizenship (Amendment) Act/National Registry of Citizens, whose histories in courts and legislative bodies are written in linguistic trickery. Offering novel ways of understanding why the Hindu right has claimed victories on these legislative and judicial matters that impact the lives of minority citizens, it is essential reading for key insights for academic researchers and students in sociolinguistics, as well as South Asia studies, gender studies and Indian politics and culture.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Author's Notes; Political Parties, Alliances, and Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Cartographies of Language and Citizenship; 2. Where God Was Born: Ramajanmbhoomi and Babri Masjid; 3. From Shah Bano to Sharaya Bano: Indian Muslim Women as Subjects of Rights; 4. Gifts that Keep on Giving: Kashmir, Article 370, and Pakistan; 5. Who Is a Citizen of India? Citizenship Amendment Act, Minorities, and Termites; Postscript; Appendix; Glossary; References.

About the Author :
Ila Nagar is Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. Her recent publications include Being Janana: Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2019). She studies how language represents familiar and unfamiliar social hierarchies.

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'Nagar's lucid and compassionate volume introduces 'linguistic trickery' as a powerful analytic for understanding the subtle yet consequential maneuvers that so often characterize political discourse. Encompassing a range of rhetorical strategies, the concept reveals how India's Hindu right has weaponized language to construct threatening images of Indian Muslims-paving the way for the tragedies of the nation's ethnonational present.' Janet McIntosh, Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University


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  • ISBN-13: 9781009480284
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1009480286
  • Publisher Date: 22 Aug 2025
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • Sub Title: Legislating a Hindu India


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