Varshney and Staggs Published: Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow

January 3, 2024 Journal of Democracy

Professor Ashutosh Varshney has recently published a paper in Journal of Democracy. The paper was coauthored with PhD candidate Connor Staggs and is titled "Hindu Nationalism and the New Jim Crow". This draws a parallel between the political and social dynamics of Hindu nationalism in India under Narendra Modi and the policies of racial segregation of the Jim Crow era in the United States (from approximately 1880 to 1965) Read the full paper.