Research Articles
Author: Srinivas Lankala (Department of Communication University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Drawing on Mahmood Mamdani’s analysis of the ‘good Muslim-bad Muslim’ dichotomy within American political and cultural discourse, this article analyses Hindu nationalists’ violent campaigns against India’s Muslim minority through a discussion of the reportage of two significant instances of this violence in Indian English-language newspapers. To explain the contradictory responses of the Indian press to these instances, the article argues that the prevalent liberal consensus of Indian nationalism, of which the press is a part, is responsible for the ambiguity that characterises mainstream responses to majoritarian violence against Muslims.
Keywords: terrorism, Indian newspapers, Islam, Hindu nationalism
How to Cite: Lankala, S. (2017) “Mediated Nationalisms and ‘Islamic Terror’: The Articulation of Religious and Postcolonial Secular Nationalisms in India”, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. 3(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.32