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Babri After Babri: The ‘Disputed Sites’ Playbook
India, Essay Fahad Zuberi 12/6/25 India, Essay Fahad Zuberi 12/6/25

Babri After Babri: The ‘Disputed Sites’ Playbook

How a seemingly banal ‘legal’ tool enables the destruction of Muslim spaces across India.

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Roots of the Parachinar Conflict
Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 7/4/25 Pakistan, Essay Sibth ul Hassan Turi 7/4/25

Roots of the Parachinar Conflict

Hassan Turi explores how land disputes and Afghan wars have created conditions ripe for sectarian violence in Kurram.

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Eqbal Ahmad for a Time of Monsters
Essay, Diaspora, Issue 9 Soham Patel 3/5/25 Essay, Diaspora, Issue 9 Soham Patel 3/5/25

Eqbal Ahmad for a Time of Monsters

On the duty of intellectuals in this era of authoritarianism, genocide and pacifist pathologies

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Anti-Colonial Violence in the 1921 Malabar Rebellion
India, Essay, Issue 9 Munavir Ali A. P. 3/5/25 India, Essay, Issue 9 Munavir Ali A. P. 3/5/25

Anti-Colonial Violence in the 1921 Malabar Rebellion

As the current Hindu right-wing regime continues to perpetuate the century-old colonial stigmatization of a Muslim peasantry led anti-colonial rebellion in British India, a historical communist recuperation of the movement and its legacies is warranted

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From the Barrel of a Gun? Maoist Debates in Pakistan
Essay, Pakistan, Issue 9 Noaman G. Ali 3/5/25 Essay, Pakistan, Issue 9 Noaman G. Ali 3/5/25

From the Barrel of a Gun? Maoist Debates in Pakistan

The Mazdoor Kisan Party’s debate on armed struggle and electoral politics as political strategies

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Siraj Sikder: A Legacy of Freedom
Essay, Issue 9, Bangladesh Mir Rifat Us Saleheen 3/5/25 Essay, Issue 9, Bangladesh Mir Rifat Us Saleheen 3/5/25

Siraj Sikder: A Legacy of Freedom

Siraj Sikder and Sarbahara Party’s violent yet emancipatory struggles hold key lessons for Bangladesh and its post-authoritarian future.

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A Populist Left Victory in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, Essay Uditha Devapriya 1/22/25 Sri Lanka, Essay Uditha Devapriya 1/22/25

A Populist Left Victory in Sri Lanka

Can the NPP confront its past and present to build a radical program?

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The Prisoners in Bangladesh’s Backyard
Essay, Bangladesh Farihah Ahmed 12/2/24 Essay, Bangladesh Farihah Ahmed 12/2/24

The Prisoners in Bangladesh’s Backyard

The Rohingya will be the litmus test for a “new” Bangladesh’s progressive ideals.

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The Colonial Roots of Sri Lanka’s Tax Regime 
Essay, Sri Lanka Shiran Illanperuma 8/22/24 Essay, Sri Lanka Shiran Illanperuma 8/22/24

The Colonial Roots of Sri Lanka’s Tax Regime 

Interrogating colonial and neoliberal fiscal policy to chart a path out of underdevelopment.

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200 Years of Malaiyaha Tamil Labour in Sri Lanka
Essay, Sri Lanka SALAM & Maynmai 6/6/24 Essay, Sri Lanka SALAM & Maynmai 6/6/24

200 Years of Malaiyaha Tamil Labour in Sri Lanka

A brief history of 200 years of involuntary migration, imposed statelessness, exploitation and marginalization of Upcountry or Malaiyaha Tamil tea plantation workers.

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For Palestinian Martyrs: Urdu Literature and Palestinian Resistance
Photo Essay, Pakistan, Essay Anonymous 4/19/24 Photo Essay, Pakistan, Essay Anonymous 4/19/24

For Palestinian Martyrs: Urdu Literature and Palestinian Resistance

Marxist, feminist, and anti-imperialist Urdu writers associated with literary progressivism in South Asia have long written of Palestinian resistance. Their solidarity can guide us today as we try to learn once again, together, from the liberation struggles that are moving us towards a new world.

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The Afghan Question and the Contradictions of Pakistani Identity
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Essay Zehra Hashmi 4/1/24 Pakistan, Afghanistan, Essay Zehra Hashmi 4/1/24

The Afghan Question and the Contradictions of Pakistani Identity

Recent deportations of Afghan refugees reveal the historical contradictions of citizenship and national identity in Pakistan.

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