While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the precarious situation of India's minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying of a significant proportion of the diasporic Hindu community behind a resurgent...
While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis i...
This volume provides a different understanding of India's post-independence history through a close analysis of several feature and documentary films of Shyam Benegal. Providing a fuller understanding of Indian cinema, this book gives important insights into the imagination of the time.
This volume provides a different understanding of India's post-independence history through a close analysis of several feature and documentary films ...