Crisis of secularism in India
Crisis of secularism in India
- Durham Duke University Press 2007
- xii,411p. 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-395) and index.
Secularism's historical background -- Reflections on the category of secularism in India : Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the ethics of communal representation, c. 1931 / A view from the south : Ramasami's public critique of religion / Nehru's faith / Secularism and democracy -- Closing the debate on secularism : a personal statement / Living with secularism / The contradictions of secularism / The secular state and the limits of dialogue / Secular nationalism, Hindutva, and the minority / Sites of secularism : education, media, and cinema -- Secularism, history, and contemporary politics in India / The Gujarat experiment and hindu national realism : lessons for secularism / Secularism and popular Indian cinema / Neither state nor faith : the transcendental significance of the cinema / Secularism and personal law -- Siting secularism in the uniform civil code : a "riddle wrapped inside an enigma"? / The Supreme Court, the media, and the uniform civil code debate in India / Secularism and the very concept of law / Conversion -- Literacy and conversion in the discourse of Hindu nationalism / Christian conversions, Hindutva, and secularism / Chronology of the career of secularism in India -- Dwaipayan Sen. Shabnum Tejani -- Paula Richman and V. Geetha -- Sunil Khilnani -- Ashis Nandy -- Nivedita Menon -- Partha Chatterjee -- Gyanendra Pandey -- Gyan Prakash -- Romila Thapar -- Arvind Rajagopal -- Shyam Benegal -- Ravi S. Vasudevan -- Upendra Baxi -- Flavia Agnes -- Akeel Bilgrami -- Gauri Viswanathan -- Sumit Sarkar -- I. II. III. IV. V. App.
9780822338468
9780822338314 9780822338468
2006015641
GBA668383 bnb
013527288 Uk
Secularism--India.
Communalism--India.
Religion and politics--India.
BL2765.I4 / C75 2007
322.10954 / CR-
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-395) and index.
Secularism's historical background -- Reflections on the category of secularism in India : Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the ethics of communal representation, c. 1931 / A view from the south : Ramasami's public critique of religion / Nehru's faith / Secularism and democracy -- Closing the debate on secularism : a personal statement / Living with secularism / The contradictions of secularism / The secular state and the limits of dialogue / Secular nationalism, Hindutva, and the minority / Sites of secularism : education, media, and cinema -- Secularism, history, and contemporary politics in India / The Gujarat experiment and hindu national realism : lessons for secularism / Secularism and popular Indian cinema / Neither state nor faith : the transcendental significance of the cinema / Secularism and personal law -- Siting secularism in the uniform civil code : a "riddle wrapped inside an enigma"? / The Supreme Court, the media, and the uniform civil code debate in India / Secularism and the very concept of law / Conversion -- Literacy and conversion in the discourse of Hindu nationalism / Christian conversions, Hindutva, and secularism / Chronology of the career of secularism in India -- Dwaipayan Sen. Shabnum Tejani -- Paula Richman and V. Geetha -- Sunil Khilnani -- Ashis Nandy -- Nivedita Menon -- Partha Chatterjee -- Gyanendra Pandey -- Gyan Prakash -- Romila Thapar -- Arvind Rajagopal -- Shyam Benegal -- Ravi S. Vasudevan -- Upendra Baxi -- Flavia Agnes -- Akeel Bilgrami -- Gauri Viswanathan -- Sumit Sarkar -- I. II. III. IV. V. App.
9780822338468
9780822338314 9780822338468
2006015641
GBA668383 bnb
013527288 Uk
Secularism--India.
Communalism--India.
Religion and politics--India.
BL2765.I4 / C75 2007
322.10954 / CR-