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- noun A
hostility towards the people and culture of theIndian subcontinent
Etymologies
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Examples
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Voila, the Guardianexperts at Indophobia, beating the BBC in a dead heat to the rescue!
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The first sign of Indophobia many of us encounter is really its own ideological defenses; phrases which are used to preempt any discussion about it, like "Indian chauvinism," "Indian supremacism," "Indian exceptionalism," "Indian victimism," or just allegations of childish over-sensitiveness coupled with some sort of vague Eastern cultural fetishism pertaining to notions of honor (I have heard all of these sentiments informally or otherwise in my academic career from grad school until now).
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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The nastiness of Indophobia is of course bad for India in the first instance.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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But it is the present, the post cold war, post 9/11, post outsourcing nature of Indophobia that we must return to, history in tow.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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In the past Indophobia was part of a colonial and then cold war mindset.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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Just as how some people think it is okay to be racist now because we have a black president, the new Indophobia deems it okay to spew nastiness because India has arrived too.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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There has been a tendency to shy away from naming Indophobia as such because we think it affects our image of India Rising, which has been hard fought, no doubt.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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Indophobia can be fought, and I believe there is enough goodness in all communities to do so.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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The bold labeling of a sovereign, democratic nation as a "global evil" marks, I believe, a new low in what must be recognized as nothing less than Indophobia.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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Fuelled by the crazy stories of missionaries determined to rid the world of heathen Hindus and steeped in the ideologies of the colonizers 'civilizing mission, Indophobia infiltrated popular, journalistic, political and academic thought.
Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room 2010
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