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Crisis Secularism In India
. Ed(S): Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney; Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder
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Description for Crisis Secularism In India
paperback. In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India. Editor(s): Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney; Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
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 precarious situation of India’s minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying of a significant proportion of the diasporic Hindu community behind a resurgent nationalist Hinduism. There is a broad consensus that a crisis of ... Read more
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 precarious situation of India’s minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying of a significant proportion of the diasporic Hindu community behind a resurgent nationalist Hinduism. There is a broad consensus that a crisis of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822338468
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V9780822338468
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About . Ed(S): Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney; Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham is Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College. She is the author of Using the Master’s Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Distinguished Visiting Global Professor in the Department of English at New York University. Her books include The Scandal of the State: Women, Law ... Read more
Reviews for Crisis Secularism In India
“Indian public debates on the question of secularism have been among the most thought-provoking in the contemporary world. This rich collection of essays by Indian intellectuals (including historians, political scientists, and philosophers) reflects the sophisticated character of many of the arguments being deployed. I strongly recommend it to anyone who has been seriously thinking about this problem.”—Talal Asad, author of ... Read more