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Pluralism and democracy in India : debating the Hindu right /

Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:1s ted.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The Politics of History / Amartya Sen
  • Pluralism on Trial in Late Nineteenth-Century India / Mushirul Hasan
  • Nehru, Religion, and the Humanities / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami
  • Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism : The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign / Malini Parthasarathy
  • Clarity Begins at Home / Antara Dev Sen
  • From a Compartmental Society to Growing Violence and Corruption : Surveying in the 1990s through Advertisements / Arvind Rajagopal
  • The Long March from Ayodhya : Democracy and Violence in India / Amrita Basu
  • Political Competition and Communal Violence in India / Steven Wilkinson
  • Tokenism or Empowerment? : Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities / Zoya Hasan
  • Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis / Prabhat Patnaik
  • The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu / Gurcharan Das
  • The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy : Writing at the Time of Siege / Nabaneeta Dev Sen
  • The Baby and the Bathwater : Secularism in the Work of a Conservative Writer / Pratik Kanjilal
  • The BJP's Intellectual Agenda : Textbooks and Imagined History / Mushirul Hasan and Jamia Millia Islamia
  • 'Shed No More Blood' : Women's Peace Work in India / Ritu Menon
  • Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics / Tanika Sarkar
  • Fantasies of Purity and Domination : Rape and Torture in the Gujarat Riots / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus : Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Post-Colonial Moment / Paul Courtright
  • It Can Happen Here : The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the American Academy / Wendy Doniger
  • Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland : Gujarati Diaspora Politics in America / Mona G. Mehta
  • The Hindu Diaspora in the United States / Ved Nanda.