The Crisis of Secularism in IndiaAnuradha Dingwaney Needham, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Duke University Press, 18 ian. 2007 - 411 pagini 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. Scholars of history, anthropology, religion, politics, law, philosophy, and media studies take on a broad range of concerns. Some consider the history of secularism in India; others explore theoretical issues such as the relationship between secularism and democracy or the shortcomings of the categories “majority” and “minority.” Contributors examine how the debates about secularism play out in schools, the media, and the popular cinema. And they address two of the most politically charged sites of crisis: personal law and the right to practice and encourage religious conversion. Together the essays inject insightful analysis into the fraught controversy about the shortcomings and uncertain future of secularism in the world today. Contributors. Flavia Agnes, Upendra Baxi, Shyam Benegal, Akeel Bilgrami, Partha Chatterjee, V. Geetha, Sunil Khilnani, Nivedita Menon, Ashis Nandy, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, Gyanendra Pandey, Gyan Prakash, Arvind Rajagopal, Paula Richman, Sumit Sarkar, Dwaipayan Sen, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Shabnum Tejani, Romila Thapar, Ravi S. Vasudevan, Gauri Viswanathan |
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... language , nominat- ing instead Hindi written in Devanagari ( Shefali Jha , " Rights versus Rep- resentation " ; Pai , 2076 ; Kesavan , 9 ) . Partition made secularism a particularly fraught political idea at the time of the framing of ...
... language news- papers and vernacular newspapers , respectively assumed to be " secular " and " communalist " in their news coverage , a contrast also reflected in the Con- gress party's distinctively different manifestoes in English and ...
... language [ may contain ] the potential to introduce worldviews at variance with those affirmed by the com- munity . " And because literacy is embedded in this cultural context , educa- tion's implementation as a fundamental right has ...
... language of secularism is recast in the language of intolerance instead . . . . There are . . . the known laws against murder , mayhem and arson . These constitute our secular foundations , not sentimen- tal goodwill , nor the pious ...
... language . It is a mechanism to avoid violence that must be learned as mere reasonableness . It is as thin as an ID card , not as thick as ' identity " ( " Terror , " 106 ) . Hence the explorations this volume undertakes into the ...
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Gandhi Ambedkar and the Ethics of Communal Representation c 1931 | 45 |
Ramasamis Public Critique of Religion | 66 |
Nehrus Faith | 89 |
A Personal Statement | 107 |
Living with Secularism | 118 |
The Contradictions of Secularism | 141 |
The Secular State and the Limits of Dialogue | 157 |
Secular Nationalism Hindutva and the Minority | 177 |
The Transcendental Significance of the Cinema | 239 |
A Riddle Wrapped Inside an Enigma? | 267 |
The Supreme Court the Media and the Uniform Civil Code Debate in India | 294 |
Secularism and the Very Concept of Law | 316 |
Literacy and Conversion in the Discourse of Hindu Nationalism | 333 |
Christian Conversions Hindutva and Secularism | 356 |
Chronology of the Career of Secularism in India | 369 |
Works Cited | 373 |
Secularism History and Contemporary Politics in India | 191 |
Lessons for Secularism | 208 |
Secularism and Popular Indian Cinema | 225 |
Contributors | 397 |
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