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Pluralism and democracy in India : debating the Hindu right / Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum

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New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Doniger, Wendy and Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Past and the Present -- 1.The Politics of History---Amartya Sen -- 2.Pluralism on Trial in Late Nineteenth-Century India---Mushirul Hasan -- 3.Nehru, Religion, and the Humanities---Martha C. Nussbaum -- 4.Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment---Akeel Bilgrami -- pt. II Democratic Media -- 5.Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism: The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign---Malini Parthasarathy -- 6.Clarity Begins at Home: To Nurture Pluralism and Democracy in India, the Media Needs to First Inculcate These Traits within Itself---Antara dev Sen -- 7.The Emergence of a National-Popular Television Aesthetics: Surveying in the 1990s through Advertisements---Arvind Rajagopal -- pt. III Political Parties and Movements -- 8.The Long March from Ayodhya: Democracy and Violence in India---Amrita Basu -- 9.Tokenism or Empowerment? Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities---Zoya Hasan -- 10.Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis---Prabhat Patnaik -- pt. IV Creating an Inclusive Public Culture -- 11.The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu---Gurcharan Das -- 12.The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy: Writing at the Time of Siege---Nabaneeta dev Sen -- 13.The Baby and the Bathwater: Secularism in the Work of a Conservative Writer---Pratik Kanjilal -- 14.The BJP's Intellectual Agenda: Textbooks and Imagined History---Mushirul Hasan -- pt. V Gender and Democracy -- 15."Shed No More Blood": Women's Peace Work in India---Ritu Menon -- 16.Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics---Tanika Sarkar -- pt. VI India's Politics on the US Stage -- 17.Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus: Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Postcolonial Moment ---Paul B. Courtright -- 18.The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the Academy---Wendy Doniger -- 19.Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland: Gujarati Diaspora Politics in America---Mona G. Mehta -- 20.The Hindu Diaspora in the United States---Ved P. Nanda.
Summary
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values?
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9780199380947 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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