Contributed articles on Hindus in India, in relation to other religious communities, chiefly Muslims.
Contributed articles on Hindus in India, in relation to other religious communities, chiefly Muslims.
Contributed articles on Hindus in India, in relation to other religious communities, chiefly Muslims.
In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.
Secularism's historical background -- Secularism and democracy -- Sites of secularism : education, media, and cinema -- Secularism and personal law -- Conversion.
In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.
In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.
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
fromE-Duke books scholarly collection
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…
In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.