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The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India´s Future

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Description for The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India´s Future Paperback. Looking at India, this book reveals that the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JPF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 652.

While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state.

Since long before the 2002 Gujarat riots--in which nearly two thousand Muslims were killed by Hindu extremists--the power of the Hindu right has been growing, threatening India's hard-won constitutional practices of democracy, tolerance, and religious pluralism. Led politically by the Bharatiya Janata ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674030596
SKU
V9780674030596
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About Martha C. Nussbaum
Martha C. Nussbaum is the author of The Fragility of Goodness, The Monarchy of Fear, and Citadels of Pride, among other works. She is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is in the Law School and Philosophy Department. She has received three of the world’s most significant awards for ... Read more

Reviews for The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India´s Future
This is an extraordinarily interesting book on a very difficult subject. Martha Nussbaum's commanding familiarity with culturally related political issues across the world, past and present, combines immensely fruitfully here with her involvement and understanding of India.
Amartya Sen, Harvard University This impressive and important book grapples with the problems and consequences of religious extremism. Nussbaum's brilliant analysis of ... Read more

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