Modern Myths, Locked Minds: Secularism and Fundamentalism in India
Author:   T.N.M Madan (Professor, Professor, Institute of Ecnomic Growth, Delhi)
Publisher:   OUP India
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
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9780198065104


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   21 January 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Secularism is one of the important and contentious public debates in India today. It is seen to be in greater crisis now than ever before, making a case for the continuing presence of this book. The debate also furnishes the making of Indian polity and society, given the inter-related development of culture, society and politics in India. It is thus a debate about religious nationalism and fundamentalism as well. This volume examines the ideologies of secularism and fundamentalism in the setting of the religious traditions of India -- Hinduism, Sikhism, and Islam. Further insightful comparison of the traditions is offered, each seen over a long period of time, revealing markedly distinctive historical experiences. This second, paperback edition comes with a new preface where the author revisits this debate and contemporarises it for the reader. Also included are two new appendices on secularism.

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Author:   T.N.M Madan (Professor, Professor, Institute of Ecnomic Growth, Delhi)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.429kg
ISBN:  

9780198065104


ISBN 10:   0198065108
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   21 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ; 1. Introduction: Scope, Concepts, Method; ; 2. The Sikh Religious Tradition: Meanings of Secularism; ; 3. The Sikh Religious Tradition: Fundamentalisms, Old and New; ; 4. Islam in South Asia: From Orthodoxy to Fundamentalism; ; 5. Islam in South Asia: Quest for Pluralism; ; 6. The Hindu Religious Tradition: Secularism as Pluralism; ; 7. The Hindu Religious Tradition: revivalism and Fundamentalism; ; 8. The Crisis of Indian Secularism; ; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX I: SECULARISM IN ITS PLACE; APPENDIX II: SECULARISM REVISITED: DOCTRINE OF DESTINY OR POLITICAL IDEOLOGY?; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX

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T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor (Sociology) at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

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