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The Crisis of Secularism in India

The Crisis of Secularism in India

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney
Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari

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General Political ScienceHinduismIndian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 0822338319
ISBN13: 9780822338314
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 18 2007
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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 secularism exists, but whether the state can resolve conflicts and ease tensions or is itself part of the problem is a matter of vigorous political and intellectual debate. In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading Indian cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.

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