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Tolerance, secularization, and democratic politics in South Asia /
"What is the relationship between secularization and tolerance? Critically analyzing the empirical and theoretical foundations of a putatively linear relationship between the two, this volume argues for moving past both romanticised readings of pre-modern tolerance and the unthinking belief tha...
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar; 2. Languages of secularity Sudipta Kaviraj; 3. Secularization of politics: Muslim nationalism and sectarian conflict in South Asia Sadia Saeed; 4. Temple building in secularizing Nepal: materializing religion and ethnicity in a state of transformation Sara Shneiderman; 5. Secularization and 'constitutive moments': insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia Joya Chatterji; 6. Tolerance in Bangladesh: discourses of state and society Samia Huq; 7. In the void of faith: Sunnyata, sovereignty, minority Aishwary Kumar; 8. Pillayar and the politicians: secularization and toleration at the end of Sri Lanka's Civil War Jonathan Spencer.