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Online archiving as claims to history: New media and religious politics in India

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Udupa, Sahana
Religious Diversity, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Society;

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Udupa, S. (2014). Online archiving as claims to history: New media and religious politics in India. MMG Working Paper, (14-10).

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This paper explores the case of right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteers in India, to turn a critical eye on a digital practice that has become prominent on social media in India in recent times – the assembling of facts, figures and treatises as an ideological exercise by the net-savvy ‘non-experts’. Building on ethnographic fieldwork among social media users in urban India, I argue that the practice of online archiving constitutes a distinct politics of history-making, pertinent especially for the varied ways in which online users participate in religious politics. Online archiving for religious politics offers a sobering, and even troubling, picture of the digital commons, and unsettles some of the universalist claims underlying much celebrated user-generated content.