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The crisis of secularism in India / edited by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2007. - xii, 411 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-395) and index.

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, V. Geetha -- Nehru's faith / Sunil Khilnani -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Literacy and conversion in the discourse of Hindu nationalism / Gauri Viswanathan -- Christian conversions, Hindutva, and secularism / Sumit Sarkar.

ISBN: 0822338319 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822338314 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822338467 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822338468 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006015641

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA668383 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013527288 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Secularism--India.
Communalism--India.
Religion and politics--India.

LC Class. No.: BL2765.I4 / C75 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 322/.10954