Contributors
Introduction: Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum
I.The Past and the Present
The Politics of History - Amartya Sen
Pluralism on Trial in Late Nineteenth-Century India - Mushirul Hasan
Nehru, Religion, and the Humanities - Martha C. Nussbaum
Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment - Akeel Bilgrami
II. Democratic Media
Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism: The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign - Malini Parthasarathy
Clarity Begins at Home - Antara Dev Sen,
From a Compartmental Society to Growing Violence and Corruption: Surveying in the 1990s through Advertisements - Arvind Rajagopal
III. Political Parties and Movements
The Long March from Ayodhya: Democracy and Violence in India - Amrita Basu
Tokenism or Empowerment? Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities - Zoya Hasan
Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis - Prabhat Patnaik
IV. Creating an Inclusive Public Culture Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu
The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy: Writing at the Time of Siege - Nabaneeta Dev Sen
The Baby and the Bathwater: Secularism in the Work of a Conservative Writer - Pratik Kanjilal
The BJP's Intellectual Agenda: Textbooks and Imagined History - Mushirul Hasan and Jamia Millia Islamia
V. Gender and Democracy
'Shed No More Blood': Women's Peace Work in India - Ritu Menon
Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics - Tanika Sarkar
Fantasies of Purity and Domination: Rape and Torture in the Gujarat Riots - Martha C. Nussbaum
VI. India's Politics on the U.S. Stage
Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus: Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Post-Colonial Moment - Paul Courtright
The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the American Academy - Wendy Doniger
Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland: Gujarati Diaspora Politics in America - Mona G. Mehta
The Hindu Diaspora in the United States - Ved Nanda
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