The Crisis of Secularism in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crisis of Secularism in India write by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham. This book was released on 2007-01-18. The Crisis of Secularism in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.
Indian Secularism
Indian Secularism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Secularism write by Shabnum Tejani. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Indian Secularism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism. Shabnum Tejani unpacks prevailing assumptions about the meaning of secularism in contemporary politics, focusing on India but with many points of comparison elsewhere in the world. She questions the simple dichotomy between secularism and communalism that has been used in scholarly study and political discourse. Tracing the social, political, and intellectual genealogies of the concepts of secularism and communalism from the late nineteenth century until the ratification of the Indian constitution in 1950, she shows how secularism came to be bound up with ideas about nationalism and national identity.
Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature
Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature write by Roger McNamara. This book was released on 2018-06-06. Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature examines how writers from religious and ethnic minority communities (Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Dalits, Muslims, and Parsis) in India and Sri Lanka engage secularism through novels, short stories, and autobiographies. Given the rise of Hindu nationalism in India and Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, it would seem obvious that minorities would rally around secularism (the separation of church and state). However, this bookargues that the relationship between minorities and secularism is extremely ambivalent. On the one hand, it shows how writers belonging to oppressed communities can deploy secularism as a mode of critique (secular criticism) to challenge the ideologies of dominant groups—the nation, upper-castes, and religious hierarchies. On the other hand, it examines how these writers reveal that other aspects of secularism (secularization and secular time) are responsible for creating essentialized identities that have not only exacerbated relationships between majorities and minorities and between minority groups, but have also created tension within minority groups themselves. Turing to aesthetics and religious faith, these writers attempt to undermine secular social and cultural structures that are responsible for this crisis of minority identity.
Limiting Secularism
Limiting Secularism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Limiting Secularism write by Priya Kumar. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Limiting Secularism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar’s Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of “Indian” from “Pakistani” and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation. Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabitation can replace the “arrogant compulsive tolerance” of the state and the majority. Informed by Jacques Derrida’s recent work on hospitality and living together, Kumar argues for the emergence of an “ethics of coexistence” in Indian fiction and film. Considering narratives ranging from the cosmopolitan English novels of Rushdie and Ghosh to literature in South Asian languages as well as recent Hindi cinema, Kumar demonstrates that these fictions are important resources for reimagining tolerance and coexistence. Distinctive and timely in its investigation of secularism and communalism, Limiting Secularism works to envision the radical possibilities of going beyond tolerance to living well together. Priya Kumar is associate professor of English at the University of Iowa.
Secular States, Religious Politics
Secular States, Religious Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Secular States, Religious Politics write by Sumantra Bose. This book was released on 2018-05-03. Secular States, Religious Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world
