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020			_a9781108428545
082			_a320.954 _bIQT/T
245			_aTolerance,Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia/ _cedited by Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar
260			_aNew York: _bCambridge University Press, _c2018.
300			_aix,216p.
505			_a1.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.
520			_aCritically 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
650			_aDemocracy -- South Asia.
650			_aSecularism -- Political aspects -- South Asia.
650			_aToleration -- South Asia.
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