| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Secular Imaginary -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Gandhi-Nehru Tradition -- Note On Methodology -- Plan Of The Book -- Notes -- 1 Debating The Secular Beyond The West -- Introduction -- Secular -- Secularisation -- Secularity -- Secularism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Gandhi's Ashram And Political Thought: A Counter-Narrative Of Secularity -- Introduction -- What Is The Political? -- What Is Religion? -- Gandhi's Ashram Observances And His Religious Politics -- Satya (Truth) -- Ahimsa (Non-Violence), Or 'Love' |
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Tolerance Or Equality Of All Religions -- Gandhi's Spiritual Or Ascetic 'Bbiomoral' Practices -- Conclusion: The Counter-Narrative Of Secularity -- Notes -- 3 Gandhi's Associationalism: A Non-State Alternative To Libberal Secularism? -- Introduction -- Religion In Politics -- Political Unity In Forms Of Associationalism -- Unity Between Religions: Communal Unity Between Hindus And Muslims -- The Non-Cooperation And Kkhilafat Movements, 1919-1922 -- Separate Electorates And The Demand For Pakkistan -- The Partition Of India, 1947 -- Unity Within Religion: Caste And Untouchability |
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Religious Tolerance -- Conclusion: Gandhi's Failure And Secularism's Future -- Notes -- 4 Was Nehru Nehruvian?: Religion, Secularity And Nehruism -- Introduction -- Modernity In Swaraj And Swaraj In Modernity -- Religion In Nehru's Political Thought -- Religion And Politics -- Reason And Politics -- Nehru's Nationalist Narrative Of Secularity -- Nehru's Humanist-Universal Narrative Of Secularity -- Nehruvian Secularism: Nehru Against Nehruism -- From Nehruvian Secularity To Nehruism -- A Critical Appraisal Of Nehruvian Secularism -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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5 Nehru And The Politics Of Liberalism Of Fear -- Introduction -- Nehru's Engagement With Politics Before Partition Of India -- The 'Communal Or Minority Question' -- The Muslim Mass Contact Campaign, 1937 -- Nehru's Engagement With Politics In Post-Colonial India -- Group Rights For Religious Minorities And The Scs And Sts -- The Hindu Code Bbill Controversy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Documents -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
"Given the popularity and success of the Hindu right in India's electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly 'Western' concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of cognates, like secularism, secularisation and secularity, in non-Western societies without assuming them to be simply derivative or colonial legacies or contrast cases of Western societies? In other words, what is the discourse of secularity in modern India? While recognising that the dominant language of political modernity of Western societies is not easily translatable in non-Western societies, The Secular Imaginary elaborates upon an intellectual history of secularity in modern India by focusing on the two most influential political leaders - M. K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. It is an intellectual history of both idea(s) and intellectuals which sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity - the Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism and 'unity in diversity'. It revisits this dominant narrative of secularity of the twentieth century, which influenced and shaped the imagination of the modern nation-state"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2023) |
| Subject |
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
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Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
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Secularism -- India
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
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Secularism
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Secularization
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022038092 |
| ISBN |
9781009180306 |
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1009180304 |
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9781009276566 |
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1009276565 |
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