Sanjeev Kumar H M
Biographic Data
| ID | 198812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanjeev Kumar H M |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanjeev H M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | M S K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cinematic Mediation of Dharmic Axiology
The metaphysical conception of dharma has been quintessential in determining the contours of the ideal life in India. Dharma has imparted a didactic framework to mediate the idioms of such an ideal life, which in turn exteriorises itself into multilayered and multifaceted socio-cultural dimensions. One dominant idiom that signifies the representation of this kind of ideal life has been the family, which acts as a strong pillar, lying at the botto…
Cinema as a Discourse on Critical Geopolitics
This paper attempts to map the modes by which cinematic narratives of select Hindi movies produced by Bollywood can be employed as a discourse on critical geopolitics. The focus is to understand how the representations of the India–Pakistan border in a select set of Hindi films tend to portray the psychology of cartographic fundamentalism. Situating the imagery of divided cartographies of the Indian Subcontinent in Hindi cinema, the paper looks a…
Territorial Nationalism, Confessional Islam and the Conundrum of State-Making in Early Postcolonial Pakistan
The interplay of the question regarding the nature of postcolonial citizenship and the limits of religious belief considerably moulded the processes of the structuring of the political community in the early years of Pakistan’s history. Such an interplay manifested in the form of a normative contest between two distinct conceptualisations of nationalism. One was based on the notion of fixity of political territoriality that was defined in terms o…
Colonial Governmentality and the Native Intellectual Response
This article is premised on the argument that the idea of modern South Asia has been a product of the transformation of the region’s identity from being an exemplar of a cohesive macro-cultural topography in the ancient world to becoming an incohesive social formation today. Such a transformation was impelled by the epistemic rupture that it experienced, owing to the coming of the values of post-Enlightenment Modernity after the advent of the era…
The Colonial Genealogies of Political Decay and Legitimation Crises
This article is an attempt to conceptualise and theoretically explain the colonial genealogies of the processes of state-making and state-construction in post-colonial South Asia. In pursuit of this, the article seeks to theorise the colonial ways of providing a sense of fixity of political territoriality, held together by colonially crafted institutions of metropolitan governance, as an independent variable in determining the nature of the proce…
Traversing the Romance of a Liberal International Order
The democratic peace hypothesis, which is embedded in the neo-Kantian romance of liberal cosmopolitan idealism, was framed in the spatiotemporal context of the Cold War bipolarity. Michael Doyle, who is one of its proponents, invoked the Kantian philosophical abstraction of ‘the perpetual peace’ by providing an intellectual defence and moral high ground for the values of the Liberal Capitalist world. In the post–Cold War setting, Francis Fukuyama…
Islam and the Question of Confessional Religious Identity
The Islamic State (ISIS) has sought to realign the role of public religion in the modern secular space by proclaiming to contest all forms of apostasy and re-interrogate the conceptual formulations of belief/unbelief in Islam. Through such quests for realignment, it has sought to revive the medieval debate on the question of confessional religious identity which involved definitional disputations concerning true Muslims. The debate surfaced durin…
Isis and the Sectarian Political Ontology
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a radical organisation acquired a massive global appeal by virtue of stretching its ideological influence beyond Arab-centric focus and recruiting followers from across the world. Central to such widespread popularity was the conception of a unified Islamic Ummah which is located in a transnational Islamic State (IS) (Caliphate) that is governed in accordance to the tenets of Islamic law (shari’a). Howeve…
How Violence is Islamized
Interpretation of the history, foundational scriptures of Islam and the cultural practices of Muslims has been a fundamental influence upon the modes of Western explanation of the reasons for the rise of violent extremism involving Muslims. In this regard, one source that factors deeply in the process of making the Western portrait of Islam and the Muslim world is the emphasis of the Salafi reform movement on adherence to a puritanical form of Is…
Metonymies of Fear
The paper begins with the contention that Hindi Cinema reflects a sharp bias towards the principle of monoculturalism while representing Muslims. This bias manifests in the trajectory of Islamophobic narratives, represented in its reductionist employment of Muslims as a synecdoche to signify a terrorist, religious extremist, Pakistan loyalist, anti-Hindu and a traitor. Such narratives can be situated within the subtext of Hindu majoritarianism an…
Responding to Western Critiques of the Muslim World
This paper is premised on the questions of whether Islam as a religion, spiritual domain, cultural practice and philosophy should be held responsible for whatever activities the Muslims choose to do in their personal capacity. Does the ascribed status of individuals being Muslims and their choice of declaring themselves as terrorists in the name of Islam entail that they are true followers of the religion and have been theologically and spiritual…
Constructing the Nation’s Enemy
This paper aims to investigate how in contemporary India the process of ‘othering’ of the Muslim minority has been the product of politically motivated and manipulated majoritarian cultural assertiveness, reflected in the Hindu right’s clamour to underline the significance of drawing the geographic and cultural boundaries of what its ideologues call the Hindu nation. Situating cinema as a crucial distribution source of popular culture, the paper …
Contesting Identity
The interface between religion and politics has become strong in the wake of expansion of modernity in its contemporary form. This can be regarded as cultural globalization. To interpret this phenomenon, the demonization of Islam by the West led by the US has been taken as a key epistemological point. This article argues that this policy, framed as part of the American strategy in the global war on terrorism, has constituted a key component of th…
Pakistan Factor in India’s Domestic Politics
Overt acquisition of nuclear weapons capacity by India and Pakistan in May 1998 signalled a tectonic shift in the nature of subcontinental conflicts. India’s military superiority in the region and its strategic depth got considerably weakened due to Pakistan’s attainment of strategic parity vis-à-vis India. In the wake of overt nuclearisation, the logic of nuclear deterrence in subcontinental security dynamics was also questioned because of conti…
Internal Dynamics of Sub-continental Security
Pokhran nuclear testing by India in May 1998 and a similar response by Pakistan immediately engendered an epochal shift in the nature of sub-continental conflicts. India’s conventional military superiority vis-a-vis Pakistan and its credibility as a regional hegemon, apparent in the three open wars fought between them prior to this, got supplanted by the smoke-screen of nuclear deterrence created by these blasts. But, most significant by-product …
Contesting Modernity
Constructing the Nation’s Enemy
This paper aims to investigate how in contemporary India the process of ‘othering’ of the Muslim minority has been the product of politically motivated and manipulated majoritarian cultural assertiveness, reflected in the Hindu right’s clamour to underline the significance of drawing the geographic and cultural boundaries of what its ideologues call the Hindu nation. Situating cinema as a crucial distribution source of popular culture, the paper …
Cinema as a Discourse on Critical Geopolitics
This paper attempts to map the modes by which cinematic narratives of select Hindi movies produced by Bollywood can be employed as a discourse on critical geopolitics. The focus is to understand how the representations of the India–Pakistan border in a select set of Hindi films tend to portray the psychology of cartographic fundamentalism. Situating the imagery of divided cartographies of the Indian Subcontinent in Hindi cinema, the paper looks a…
Isis and the Sectarian Political Ontology
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a radical organisation acquired a massive global appeal by virtue of stretching its ideological influence beyond Arab-centric focus and recruiting followers from across the world. Central to such widespread popularity was the conception of a unified Islamic Ummah which is located in a transnational Islamic State (IS) (Caliphate) that is governed in accordance to the tenets of Islamic law (shari’a). Howeve…
Responding to Western Critiques of the Muslim World
This paper is premised on the questions of whether Islam as a religion, spiritual domain, cultural practice and philosophy should be held responsible for whatever activities the Muslims choose to do in their personal capacity. Does the ascribed status of individuals being Muslims and their choice of declaring themselves as terrorists in the name of Islam entail that they are true followers of the religion and have been theologically and spiritual…
Contesting Modernity
Internal Dynamics of Sub-continental Security
Pokhran nuclear testing by India in May 1998 and a similar response by Pakistan immediately engendered an epochal shift in the nature of sub-continental conflicts. India’s conventional military superiority vis-a-vis Pakistan and its credibility as a regional hegemon, apparent in the three open wars fought between them prior to this, got supplanted by the smoke-screen of nuclear deterrence created by these blasts. But, most significant by-product …
Pakistan Factor in India’s Domestic Politics
Overt acquisition of nuclear weapons capacity by India and Pakistan in May 1998 signalled a tectonic shift in the nature of subcontinental conflicts. India’s military superiority in the region and its strategic depth got considerably weakened due to Pakistan’s attainment of strategic parity vis-à-vis India. In the wake of overt nuclearisation, the logic of nuclear deterrence in subcontinental security dynamics was also questioned because of conti…
Contesting Identity
The interface between religion and politics has become strong in the wake of expansion of modernity in its contemporary form. This can be regarded as cultural globalization. To interpret this phenomenon, the demonization of Islam by the West led by the US has been taken as a key epistemological point. This article argues that this policy, framed as part of the American strategy in the global war on terrorism, has constituted a key component of th…
Constructing the Nation’s Enemy
This paper aims to investigate how in contemporary India the process of ‘othering’ of the Muslim minority has been the product of politically motivated and manipulated majoritarian cultural assertiveness, reflected in the Hindu right’s clamour to underline the significance of drawing the geographic and cultural boundaries of what its ideologues call the Hindu nation. Situating cinema as a crucial distribution source of popular culture, the paper …
Responding to Western Critiques of the Muslim World
This paper is premised on the questions of whether Islam as a religion, spiritual domain, cultural practice and philosophy should be held responsible for whatever activities the Muslims choose to do in their personal capacity. Does the ascribed status of individuals being Muslims and their choice of declaring themselves as terrorists in the name of Islam entail that they are true followers of the religion and have been theologically and spiritual…
Metonymies of Fear
The paper begins with the contention that Hindi Cinema reflects a sharp bias towards the principle of monoculturalism while representing Muslims. This bias manifests in the trajectory of Islamophobic narratives, represented in its reductionist employment of Muslims as a synecdoche to signify a terrorist, religious extremist, Pakistan loyalist, anti-Hindu and a traitor. Such narratives can be situated within the subtext of Hindu majoritarianism an…
Islam and the Question of Confessional Religious Identity
The Islamic State (ISIS) has sought to realign the role of public religion in the modern secular space by proclaiming to contest all forms of apostasy and re-interrogate the conceptual formulations of belief/unbelief in Islam. Through such quests for realignment, it has sought to revive the medieval debate on the question of confessional religious identity which involved definitional disputations concerning true Muslims. The debate surfaced durin…
Isis and the Sectarian Political Ontology
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a radical organisation acquired a massive global appeal by virtue of stretching its ideological influence beyond Arab-centric focus and recruiting followers from across the world. Central to such widespread popularity was the conception of a unified Islamic Ummah which is located in a transnational Islamic State (IS) (Caliphate) that is governed in accordance to the tenets of Islamic law (shari’a). Howeve…
How Violence is Islamized
Interpretation of the history, foundational scriptures of Islam and the cultural practices of Muslims has been a fundamental influence upon the modes of Western explanation of the reasons for the rise of violent extremism involving Muslims. In this regard, one source that factors deeply in the process of making the Western portrait of Islam and the Muslim world is the emphasis of the Salafi reform movement on adherence to a puritanical form of Is…
The Colonial Genealogies of Political Decay and Legitimation Crises
This article is an attempt to conceptualise and theoretically explain the colonial genealogies of the processes of state-making and state-construction in post-colonial South Asia. In pursuit of this, the article seeks to theorise the colonial ways of providing a sense of fixity of political territoriality, held together by colonially crafted institutions of metropolitan governance, as an independent variable in determining the nature of the proce…
Traversing the Romance of a Liberal International Order
The democratic peace hypothesis, which is embedded in the neo-Kantian romance of liberal cosmopolitan idealism, was framed in the spatiotemporal context of the Cold War bipolarity. Michael Doyle, who is one of its proponents, invoked the Kantian philosophical abstraction of ‘the perpetual peace’ by providing an intellectual defence and moral high ground for the values of the Liberal Capitalist world. In the post–Cold War setting, Francis Fukuyama…
Cinema as a Discourse on Critical Geopolitics
This paper attempts to map the modes by which cinematic narratives of select Hindi movies produced by Bollywood can be employed as a discourse on critical geopolitics. The focus is to understand how the representations of the India–Pakistan border in a select set of Hindi films tend to portray the psychology of cartographic fundamentalism. Situating the imagery of divided cartographies of the Indian Subcontinent in Hindi cinema, the paper looks a…
Territorial Nationalism, Confessional Islam and the Conundrum of State-Making in Early Postcolonial Pakistan
The interplay of the question regarding the nature of postcolonial citizenship and the limits of religious belief considerably moulded the processes of the structuring of the political community in the early years of Pakistan’s history. Such an interplay manifested in the form of a normative contest between two distinct conceptualisations of nationalism. One was based on the notion of fixity of political territoriality that was defined in terms o…
Colonial Governmentality and the Native Intellectual Response
This article is premised on the argument that the idea of modern South Asia has been a product of the transformation of the region’s identity from being an exemplar of a cohesive macro-cultural topography in the ancient world to becoming an incohesive social formation today. Such a transformation was impelled by the epistemic rupture that it experienced, owing to the coming of the values of post-Enlightenment Modernity after the advent of the era…
Cinematic Mediation of Dharmic Axiology
The metaphysical conception of dharma has been quintessential in determining the contours of the ideal life in India. Dharma has imparted a didactic framework to mediate the idioms of such an ideal life, which in turn exteriorises itself into multilayered and multifaceted socio-cultural dimensions. One dominant idiom that signifies the representation of this kind of ideal life has been the family, which acts as a strong pillar, lying at the botto…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)