Indian secularism: a social and intellectual history 1890-1950 (Record no. 231011)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 8178243121
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Classification number 306.6 TEJ
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Personal name Tejani, Shabnum
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Title Indian secularism: a social and intellectual history 1890-1950
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Ranikhet
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Permanent Black
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
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Extent 302p.
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Price amount 9000
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Summary, etc. Secularism has been the subject of much debate. Scholars have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism. Shabnum Tejani argues here for a more complex and historically informed understanding. Her book is a history of how the idea of secularism emerged in India. She shows that the study of secularism in India has been circumscribed by the opposition in which it exists with communalism. Scholars have treated these categories as reified wholes. Consequently, analyses of secularism have obscured more than they have revealed. Indian Secularism approaches this question from a wholly new perspective. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and ending with the ratification of the constitution in 1950, it examines the social, political, and intellectual genealogies of secularism and communalism. The book examines how secularism came to be bound up with what it meant to legitimately call oneself ‘Indian’ and shows why this concept’s genealogy is so imbued with the language of religion. It argues that the emergence of the category of secularism in India had less to do with creating an ethics of tolerance than with a formulation of nationalism that provided a counterpoint to challenges posed by Muslim and Untouchable communities.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Secularism
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-08 9000.00 1 306.6 TEJ 147829 2024-06-08 2024-01-04 9000.00 2020-02-08 Books

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