Ideas of India: Temple Desecrations as a Political Strategy

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December 17, 2020

Ideas of India: Temple Desecrations as a Political Strategy

Shruti Rajagopalan
Senior Research Fellow, Indian Political Economy and Emergent Ventures India

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Shruti Rajagopalan and Rohit Ticku discuss the destruction of temples in medieval India and the effects of same-sex marriage legalization on expressions of sexual orientation in the U.S. Read the transcript at Discourse.

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