- 338 pages
- English
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About this book
This book reconceptualises the idea of communalism in independent India. It locates the changing contours of politics and religion in the country from the colonial times to the present day, and makes an important intervention in understanding the relationship between communalism and communal violence. It evaluates the role of state, media, civil societies, political parties, and other actors in the process as well as ideas such as secularism, nationalism, minority rights and democracy. Using new conceptual tools and an interdisciplinary approach, the work challenges the conventional understanding of communalism as time and context independent.
This second edition includes a Foreword by Romila Thapar and an Afterword by Dipesh Chakrabarty, along with a new Introduction which revaluate the trajectory of communal politics in contemporary India, and question how secularism has come to be understood today. This topical volume will be useful to scholars and researchers in South Asian politics, political science, history, sociology and social anthropology, as well as the interested general reader.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsements
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of contributors
- 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's critique of religious fanaticism
- 7 Communal violence in India: ending impunity
- 8 Conflict and attrition in the North-East: identity, impunity and inequality
- 9 Aspects of Hindu–Muslim divide in literature and the role of intelligentsia
- 10 Indian Christians: history and contemporary challenges
- 11 Politics of the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal, Odisha
- 12 United Progressive Alliance (I) and India's Muslims: redefining equality of opportunity?
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index