Sangh Parivar, 155

Sati Regulation Act of 1829, 77

Savarkar Veer. See Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar

Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, 21–22, 89, 95–96, 101–106, 109, 123n1, 125n18, 125n20, 126n28, 126n30, 127n31, 127n35, 129n49, 158, 178n89

secularismSee also “pseudosecularism”, 3, 9, 13, 22, 27n13, 60, 82, 96, 107–108, 110–111, 122, 128n41, 139, 155–156, 160, 164–165, 257, 259

“scientific temper,”, 14, 86, 106, 127n35, 147

scientificity, 2, 8, 13–14, 17–18, 20–23, 27n6, 32n56, 36, 82, 84, 86–87, 89, 94n72, 106, 108, 112, 117, 131n69, 143, 146–147, 162, 167–169, 171, 182–184, 189, 196–197, 204–205, 208, 221, 226–227, 247, 256

Shah Bano, 157

Sikhism, 192

Sikhs, 103, 190–192, 197, 209, 223–224

Silicon Valley, 148–149, 175n44, 247

Simla Agreement, 222

Singh, Hari, 193

Singh, Manmohan, 145, 177n76

Slater, Don, 244–245, 253

socialism, 3–4, 8, 13, 21–22, 96, 107–108, 110–111, 117, 122, 146, 156, 158, 160, 164

Sony Walkman, 261n1

sovereignty, 22, 32n57, 56, 72–73, 86, 91n23, 190, 194, 196, 205

Sri Lanka, 156

stateSee also nation-state, 1–8, 10–12, 14–18, 20–22, 24–25, 32n57, 35–36, 44–46, 56, 58–60, 63n18, 65n39, 69–77, 82–87, 89, 90n6, 93n66, 95–97, 100–102, 104–114, 116–122, 123n2, 124nn5–7, 128n41, 129n49, 130n55, 143–149, 151–153, 155–156, 158–161, 163, 165, 168, 170, 174n34, 178n89, 189–197, 209–210, 222–227, 234–236, 248, 252–254, 258–259, 260

surveys, 15, 69, 73–74, 85

Swadeshi Jagran Manch, 162

Tamil Nadu, 156

“technicism,”, 123n3, 132n69

technicity, 82, 87, 89, 117, 131–132n69, 169

“technocultural Hindu nationalism,”See also Hindutva, 2, 4, 6, 8–9, 12–13, 18, 21–23, 25, 136, 142–143, 160–162, 165, 167, 169–170, 178n89, 228n1, 250, 255, 257–258, 261n2

terror, 158, 182, 189, 192–193, 197, 204–205, 224–226

terrorism, 192, 205, 225

Thapar, Romila, 28n13

Trinidadians, 244–245, 253

U. K. See United Kingdom

UN Declaration of Human Rights, 196

United Kingdom, 144, 193, 222

United States, 5, 11–12, 14, 24–25, 26n4, 28n13, 31n38, 110, 114–116, 128n42, 131n63, 131n67