Needham / Sunder Rajan The Crisis of Secularism in India

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8841-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 426 Seiten

In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney

Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tejani, Shabnum

Richman, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham 1

I. Secularism’s Historical Background

Reflections on the Category of Secularism in India: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the Ethics of Communal Representation, c. 1931 / Shabnum Tejani 45

A View from the South: Ramasami’s Public Critique of Religion / Paula Richman and V. Geetha 66

Nehru’s Faith / Sunil Khilnani 89

II. Secularism and Democracy

Closing the Debate on Secularism: A Personal Statement / Ashis Nandy 107

Living with Secularism / Nivedita Menon 118

The Contradictions of Secularism / Partha Chatterjee 141

Secular Nationalism, Hindutva, and the Minority / Gyan Prakash 177

III. Sites of Secularism: Education, Media, and Cinema

Secularism, History, and the Contemporary Politics in India / Romila Thapar 191

The Gujarat Experiment and Hindu National Realism: Lessons from Secularism / Arvind Rajagopal 208

Secularism and Popular Indian Cinema / Shyam Benegal 225

Neither State nor Faith: The Transcendental Significance of the Cinema / Ravi S. Vasudevan 239

IV. Secularism and Personal Law

Siting Secularism in the Uniform Civil Code: A “Riddle Wrapped Inside an Enigma”? / Upendra Baxi 267

The Supreme Court, the Media, and the Uniform Civil Code Debate in India / Flavia Agnes 294

Secularism and the Very Concept of Law / Akeel Bilgrami 316

V. Conversion

Literacy and Conversion in the Discourse of Hindu Nationalism / Gauri Viswanathan 333

Christian Conversions, Hindutva, and Secularism / Sumit Sarkar 356

Appendix: Chronology of the Career of Secularism in India / Dwaipayan Sen 369

Works Cited 373

Contributors 397

Index 401

Über Autor(innen)

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham is Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College. She is the author of Using the Master’s Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Distinguished Visiting Global Professor in the Department of English at New York University. Her books include The Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in India, also published by Duke University Press.Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Distinguished Visiting Global Professor in the Department of English at New York University. Her books include The Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in India, also published by Duke University Press.