Dr Panchali Ray, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, and Associate Dean (Academic), SIAS, Krea University has been awarded the Journal of International Women’s Studies Fellowship for writing an essay titled Intimate Statecraft: Love-Jihad on the Borderlands of India. The essay will study the phenomenon of right-wing communal mobilisation on the borderlands of West Bengal, India, around inter-faith marriage between Muslim men and Hindu women. Dr Panchali Ray will examine how the trope of “love jihad” is being used both as an electoral strategy to win votes by the incumbent central government as well as a call for increasing securitization of the India-Bangladesh border.
