Like other regions of the Indian subcontinent, colonial Bengal saw considerably organized Dalit political movements against its historically dominant upper caste Hindus. With the Partition of Bengal and the winning of India's and Pakistan's freedom from British rule in 1947 howe…
The Crisis of Secularism in India
by Partha, Chatterjee, GYAN PRAKASH, Akeel, Bilgrami, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Arvind, Rajagopal, Ashis Nandy, Dwaipayan, Sen, Flavia, Agnes, Gauri, Viswanathan, Gyanendra, Pandey, Nivedita, Menon, Paula Richman, Ravi S., Vasudevan, Richman, Paula, Romila, Thapar, Shabnum, Tejani, Shyam, Benegal, Sumit, Sarkar, Tejani, Shabnum, Rajeswari Sunder, Rajan, Sunil, KhilnaniXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Upendra, BaxiXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, V., GeethaXXecontributorXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the pre…
The Crisis of Secularism in India
by Partha, Chatterjee, Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari, GYAN PRAKASH, Akeel, Bilgrami, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Arvind, Rajagopal, Ashis Nandy, Dwaipayan, Sen, Flavia, Agnes, Gauri, Viswanathan, Gyanendra, Pandey, Nivedita, Menon, Paula Richman, Ravi S., Vasudevan, Richman, Paula, Romila, Thapar, Shabnum, Tejani, Shyam, Benegal, Sumit, Sarkar, Sunil, Khilnani, Tejani, Shabnum, Upendra, Baxi, V. Geetha
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While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the pre…