Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia

Offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between secularization, tolerance and democracy through a theoretically informed look at South Asian politics.

List of contents

1. Introduction Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar; 2. Languages of secularity Sudipta Kaviraj; 3. Secularization of politics: Muslim nationalism and sectarian conflict in South Asia Sadia Saeed; 4. Temple building in secularizing Nepal: materializing religion and ethnicity in a state of transformation Sara Shneiderman; 5. Secularization and 'constitutive moments': insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia Joya Chatterji; 6. Tolerance in Bangladesh: discourses of state and society Samia Huq; 7. In the void of faith: Sunnyata, sovereignty, minority Aishwary Kumar; 8. Pillayar and the politicians: secularization and toleration at the end of Sri Lanka's Civil War Jonathan Spencer.

About the author

Humeira Iqtidar is the author of Secularizing Islamists? Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Urban Pakistan (2011) and led the ERC-funded project, 'Tolerance In Contemporary Muslim Polities: Political Theory Beyond the West'.Tanika Sarkar is author, among other books, of Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, Cultural Nationalism (2002) and Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times (2009). Her research lies at the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in colonial and post-colonial India.

Summary

Critically analyzing the empirical and theoretical foundations of a putatively linear relationship between tolerance and secularization, this volume argues for moving past both romanticized readings of pre-modern tolerance, and the unthinking belief that secularisation and democratic politics will inevitably lead to tolerance.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY HUMERIA IQ, Humeira Iqtidar, Humeira (King''''s College London) Sarkar Iqtidar
• Assisted by: Humeira Iqtidar (Editor), Humeira (King's College London) Iqtidar (Editor), Iqtidar Humeira (Editor), Tanika Sarkar (Editor), Tanika (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Sarkar (Editor), Sarkar Tanika (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781108428545
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42854-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, Asian History