Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, eds.
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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
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
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