Religion, Community and Development (eBook, ePUB)

Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India
Redaktion: Mahajan, Gurpreet; Jodhka, Surinder S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. This book examines its findings and highlights the implications of a new political discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136704550
• Artikelnr.: 38270895

Autorenporträt

Gurpreet Mahajan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Religion, Community
and Development Gurpreet Mahajan 2. Religion and Indian Politics: Changing
Perspectives D.L.Sheth 3. Group Equality and the Public Sphere: The Sachar
Committee Report and Multiculturalism in India Amir Ali 4. Hindutva's
Discourse on Development Pralay Kanungo 5. Seva, sangathanas and gurus:
Service and the Making of the Hindu nation Sujata Patel 6. Development as
Liberation: An Indian Christian Perspective Rudolf C. Heredia 7. Indian
Christians: Trajectories of Development Rowena Robinson 8. Religious
Identities and Discourses of Development: The Sikhs in Contemporary Times
Surinder S. Jodhka 9. A Long-Term View of Contemporary Muslim Situation in
India Javeed Alam 10. Between Identity and Equity: An Agenda for
Affirmative Action Tanweer Fazal 11. Struggle for the Margin or from the
Margin Gopal Guru 12. Literacy, Education and Gender Gap among
Socio-religious Groups Ravinder Kaur 13. Cultural Rights of Minorities
during Constitution-making: A Re-reading Rochana Bajpai 14. The Goan
Muslim: Presence through Invisibility V Sri Ranjani Glossary Index