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Pluralism and democracy in India : debating the Hindu right

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Based on presentations at a conference at the University of Chicago Law School in November 2005.

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.

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