TY  - BOOK
AU  - Needham,Anuradha Dingwaney
AU  - Sunder Rajan,Rajeswari
TI  - Crisis of secularism in India 
SN  - 9780822338468 
AV  - BL2765.I4 C75 2007
U1  - 322.10954 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Durham 
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Secularism
KW  - India
KW  - Communalism
KW  - Religion and politics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-395) and index; I; Secularism's historical background --; Reflections on the category of secularism in India : Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the ethics of communal representation, c. 1931; Shabnum Tejani --; A view from the south : Ramasami's public critique of religion; Paula Richman and V. Geetha --; Nehru's faith; Sunil Khilnani --; II; Secularism and democracy --; Closing the debate on secularism : a personal statement; Ashis Nandy --; Living with secularism; Nivedita Menon --; The contradictions of secularism; Partha Chatterjee --; The secular state and the limits of dialogue; Gyanendra Pandey --; Secular nationalism, Hindutva, and the minority; Gyan Prakash --; III; Sites of secularism : education, media, and cinema --; Secularism, history, and contemporary politics in India; Romila Thapar --; The Gujarat experiment and hindu national realism : lessons for secularism; Arvind Rajagopal --; Secularism and popular Indian cinema; Shyam Benegal --; Neither state nor faith : the transcendental significance of the cinema; Ravi S. Vasudevan --; IV; Secularism and personal law --; Siting secularism in the uniform civil code : a "riddle wrapped inside an enigma"?; Upendra Baxi --; The Supreme Court, the media, and the uniform civil code debate in India; Flavia Agnes --; Secularism and the very concept of law; Akeel Bilgrami --; V; Conversion --; Literacy and conversion in the discourse of Hindu nationalism; Gauri Viswanathan --; Christian conversions, Hindutva, and secularism; Sumit Sarkar --; App; Chronology of the career of secularism in India --; Dwaipayan Sen
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