TY  - BOOK
TI  - Tolerance,Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia
SN  - 9781108428545
U1  - 320.954	 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Democracy -- South Asia
KW  - Secularism -- Political aspects -- South Asia
KW  - Toleration -- South Asia
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -