The Nation: The Visible and the Invisible in South Asia.

A chapter from the book "Powers: Religion As a Social & Spiritual Force" is presented. It explores the dialectic of the seen and unseen in practices connected with religion and the nation-state in South Asia, specifically in India. It discusses the Kargil conflict of 1999 and examines the visibility or invisibility of practices that are conceived to be outside of the state, in civil society or in the public sphere. It also highlights the role of the changing nature of technologies of publicity and secrecy in understanding state power.