Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals

Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals

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Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals
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Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals

Secularism, Communalism and the Intellectuals

Author: Zaheer Baber

Publisher: Three Essays Collective

ISBN: 9788188789474
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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. Zaheer Baber???s stern indictment of anti-secular intellectuals should promote a revival of genuine Indian sociology rather than their unimaginative Indology. Baber takes T.N. Madan, Ashis Nandy and Veena Das to task, he offers us a theory of communalism, and he advises us to consider a comparative ???race??? framework for the oppressions meted out to the socially suppressed within India: all this in a very short, readable and insightful book. Vijay Prashad About The Author: Zaheer Baber is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization and Colonial Rule in India (1996) and editor of CyberAsia: The Internet and Society in Asia (2005). He has published papers in a number of journals such as The British Journal of Sociology and is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. Table of Contents 1. Secularism, Anti-Secularism and ???Theoretical Bubble-Blowing??? 2. Hindutva and the Mainstreaming of Bigotry 3. The ???Racialization??? of Communal Identity and Conflict in India

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