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  • Indian Secularism

    A Social and Intellectual History, 1890-1950

    de Shabnum Tejani ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Crisis of Secularism in India

    de Shabnum Tejani, Paula Richman ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age

    de Giorgio Shani ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan. Based on a decade of research, it is argued that the failure of the movement to bring about a sovereign, Sikh state should not be interpreted as resulting from ... Leer más

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  • Religion, Community and Development

    Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India

    Edición de Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder S. Jodhka ...
    Series series Religion and Citizenship
    By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular framework privileged the individual over the community and was more inclined to use the category of class rather than the identity of religion, the Sachar ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Pluralism and Democracy in India

    Debating the Hindu Right

    Edición de Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been supported since Independence by a political structure that emphasizes equal rights for all, and ... Leer más

    $30.59 USD

  • Gujarat Beyond Gandhi

    Identity, Society and Conflict

    Edición de Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this collection of essays critically explores the many paradoxes and complexities of modernity and politics in the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Between Colonialism and Diaspora

    Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World

    de Tony Ballantyne ...
    Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh communities and experiences in Punjab, the rest of South Asia, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Spirals of Contention

    Why India was Partitioned in 1947

    de Satish Saberwal ...
    This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a self-aggravating momentum. The book moves back and forth between evidence and general, or theoretical, ... Leer más

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  • Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life

    Hindus and Muslims in India

    de Ashutosh Varshney ...
    What kinds of civic ties between different ethnic communities can contain, or even prevent, ethnic violence? This book draws on new research on Hindu-Muslim conflict in India to address this important question. Ashutosh Varshney examines three pairs of Indian cities-one city in each pair with a history of communal violence, the other with a history of relative communal harmony-to discern why ... Leer más

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  • Justice before Reconciliation

    Negotiating a ‘New Normal’ in Post-riot Mumbai and Ahmedabad

    de Dipankar Gupta ...
    Series series Religion and Citizenship
    The book explores how Muslims in Mumbai and Ahmedabad coped with the aftermath of the violence directed against them in 1993 and 2002 respectively, and how they responded to the ethnic carnages of which they were the victims, highlighting the importance of the context and the history of the place where such violence occurred.Unlike other studies on ethnic violence which have a short-term focus, in ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Religion and Nationalism in India

    The Case of the Punjab

    de Harnik Deol ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This timely and significant study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian State in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the raiding of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The book ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Varieties of Secularism in Asia

    Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual

    Edición de Nils Ole Bubandt, Martijn Van Beek ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of secularism/secularity and examine concrete ethnographic cases in order to further the theoretical ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD