ABSTRACT
Pankaj Mishra, along with Arundhati Roy, has been the most vocal critic of India’s illiberal policies in the West. He is primarily preoccupied with the Hindu–Muslim conflict, in which he has consistently attacked the Hindu right-wing, but his pronouncements often betray shared characteristics with those he is critiquing. But while dealing with issues in India, Mishra also emerges as a ‘native informant’ whose importance as a writer–analyst rests on his presumed knowledge of a milieu foreign to the ones where he expresses himself. The chapter also examines what his writing which might be ‘anti-Indian’ by the right-wing means to the Indian middle-class and why.
