Tolerance,Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia/

Tolerance,Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia/ edited by Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. - ix,216p.

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.

Critically analyzing the empirical and theoretical foundations of a putatively linear relationship between the two, this volume argues for moving past both romanticised readings of pre-modern tolerance and the unthinking belief that secularization will inevitably lead to tolerance. The essays collected in this volume include contributions from across

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Democracy -- South Asia.
Secularism -- Political aspects -- South Asia.
Toleration -- South Asia.

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