%0 Journal Article
%T Special Guest Contribution: Is Love without Borders Possible?
%A Tanika Sarkar
%J Feminist Review
%@ 1466-4380
%D 2018
%R 10.1057/s41305-018-0120-0
%X This article focuses on ¡®Love Jihad,¡¯ the neologism that Hindutva, or Hindu Extremism, has invented to incite suspicion and violence against Indian Muslims. I begin with a brief discussion of several characteristics of the Hindutva organisational and ideological apparatus. Then I discuss anti-Love Jihad campaigns as a strategy to assert Hindu extremism in interpersonal relations. I go on to highlight specific episodes of ¡®Love Jihad¡¯ attacks by the Hindu Right that have targeted and made a political spectacle of love and marriage across community boundaries. I suggest that Love Jihad campaigns become a mode of producing docile, submissive subjects who will not question regimes of power, be it neoliberalism, religious majoritarianism or social hierarchies and injustice
%K Hindutva
%K gender
%K India
%K communalism
%K moral policing
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1057/s41305-018-0120-0