Cut The Noise: How did Jai Shri Ram become a call for violence?

In this video, Suchitra Vijayan examines how the chant Jai Sri Ram became a call for violence in India. She explores the historical context to the term and how it has emerged as a call to not only signify a muscular Hindu Rashtra but to also construct and define a certain kind of Hindu nation on the BJP and Sangh’s terms.

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Suchitra Vijayan is the founder and executive director of The Polis Project and the author of Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners.