Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals

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These essays focus on the role of fashionable critiques and smug dismissals of secularism and modernity, and the unqualified defense of so-called indigenous traditions in providing intellectual support for the discourse of Hindutva.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Zaheer Baber

ZAHEER BABER is Professor of Sociology at the Universtiy of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, civilization and colonial rule in India (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996) and editor of Cyber Asia: the Internet and Society in Asia (boston: Brill, 2005). He has published paeprs in a number of journals such as The British Journals of Sociology and is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement.