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THE MUSLIM MUST BE SAVED, THE APOSTATE MUST BE SILENT.
## How Indian Liberalism Administered the Misery of Its Minorities, 2000–2016 ### On secular respectability, the War on Terror, communal representation, and the political economy of conditional freedom *For Clout Economics* **The Indian liberal wanted to protect the Muslim from the Hindu nationalist. The difficulty was that the Muslim had to remain…
THE LIBERAL WHO INVITED THE FASCIST TO DINNER
India, 2010–2016: The Political Unconscious of a Metropolitan Class *On meritocracy, moral superiority, caste, the War on Terror, and the passage from neoliberal common sense to authoritarian populism.* **The Indian liberal of the early 2010s believed in freedom, equality, constitutional democracy, and the importance of checking one's privilege. The difficulty was that freedom…
CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE, HEATHENS!
## The Cultural Logic of Populist Humiliation ### On ressentiment, moral authority, and the disappearance of class struggle *For Clout Economics* **The bourgeoisie once had to be overthrown. Now it must be told to check its privilege.** There is a peculiar historical comedy in the transformation of social antagonism into an…
BANGALORE IS MENTY B CENTRAL AND I WONDER WHY
### The Anglophone Elite, the Populist Unconscious, and the Political Economy of Being Local *Clout Economics | A Case Study in Metropolitan Resentment* Bangalore has a peculiar relationship with its own existence. It would like to be a global city without being accused of Westernisation, a cosmopolitan city without being accused of…
PRIVILEGE BASH: A SADOMASOCHISTIC RITUAL
### On populism, collective fantasy, the unconscious, and the curious political career of jhumka proselytism *Clout Economics | Studies in the Political Economy of Resentment* There is something rather touching about the belief that the ruling classes can be defeated by making them feel embarrassed. For several decades, a considerable amount of…
THE ENEMY IS NOW DOMESTIC
### Arthur Miller, India's War on Terror, and the Political Economy of the Permanent Suspect Clout Economics | Studies in National Innocence There is something historically ingenious about a postcolonial state discovering that it can inherit the instruments of colonial government while continuing to speak in the language of liberation. …