Communalism in Postcolonial India (eBook, ePUB)

Changing contours
Redaktion: Rehman, Mujibur

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconceptualises the idea of communalism in independent India. Using conceptual tools and an interdisciplinary approach, it challenges the conventional understanding of communalism as time and context independent. The second edition includes a Foreword by Romila Thapar and an Afterword by Dipesh Chakraba

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040280560
• Artikelnr.: 72293297

Autorenporträt

Mujibur Rehman teaches at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has received graduate research training at the University of Texas, USA; the University of Heidelberg, Germany; and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Politics of India's Economic Reform (1991/92-2004). He has edited Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics (2018). He is presently working on two book projects on Indian Muslims, and on the politics of anti-Christian violence in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. Introduction to the Second Edition. Introduction 1.
Reflections on Secularism and Communalism in Constituent Assembly Debates
and Beyond 2. Institutional Communalism in India 3. The Philosophy of
Number 4. Tracing the Trajectory of Communalism and Communal Violence in
India 5. The Diaspora Community 6. Gandhi and Religious Fanaticism 7.
Communal Violence in India: Ending Impunity 8. Conflict and Attrition in
the North-east: Identity, Impunity and Inequality 9. Role of Intellectuals
and Hindu-Muslim Divide 10. Indian Christians: History and Contemporary
Challenges 11. Politics of Anti-Christian Violence in Kandhamal, 2008 12.
United Progressive Alliance (I) and India's Muslims: Redefining Equality of
Opportunity? Afterword. Bibliography