ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews how artistic citizenship in India is strategically positioned through secularism against Hindutva and through post-nationalism against the military industrial complex of the neoliberal state. The assertive political position that the Kashmiri Cabbage Walker assumes can be flagged as "post-national artistic citizenship." Vivan Sundaram is a senior contemporary Indian artist whose pioneering role in responding to the political times of the early 1990s through various media in unprecedented ways can be seen as setting the template of contemporary Indian art for the following generation of artists. The Hindutva character of the Indian government was accelerated when the Hindu right wing gained political mileage through democracy. Intolerance has been on the rise since the Hindu right wing came to power in 2014 and has consequently behaved as the sole custodians of nationalism and patriotic citizenship. Will Kymlicka develops "post-national citizenship" by pointing out the limits of national citizenship. Inder Salim's practice contains an implicit impulse of activism.
