Pluralism and Democracy in India

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Contributors Introduction: Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum I.The Past and the Present 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 II. Democratic Media 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 III. Political Parties and Movements The Long March from Ayodhya: Democracy and Violence in India - Amrita Basu Tokenism or Empowerment? Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities - Zoya Hasan Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis - Prabhat Patnaik IV. Creating an Inclusive Public Culture Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu 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 V. Gender and Democracy '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 VI. India's Politics on the U.S. Stage Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus: Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Post-Colonial Moment - Paul Courtright 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 Notes Index