Limiting Secularism: The Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film
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1st ed.
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9788178242347
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xxviii+300p.
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Within the backdrop of religious violence and regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumar probes facets of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture. She explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of marking off "Indian" from "Pakistani" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation. Kumar reveals the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance--with all its ...
