Includes bibliogr. references and index Based on presentations at a conference at the University of Chicago Law School in November 2005 Amartya SenPluralism on Trial in Late Nineteenth-Century India / Mushirul Hasan: The Politics of History Martha C. Nussbaum: Nehru, Religion, and the Humanities Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment Malini Parthasarathy: Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism : The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign Antara Dev Sen: Clarity Begins at Home Arvind Rajagopal: From a Compartmental Society to Growing Violence and Corruption : Surveying in the 1990s through Advertisements Amrita Basu: The Long March from Ayodhya : Democracy and Violence in India Steven Wilkinson: Political Competition and Communal Violence in India Zoya Hasan: Tokenism or Empowerment? : Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities Prabhat Patnaik: Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis Gurcharan Das: The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu Nabaneeta Dev Sen: The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy : Writing at the Time of Siege Pratik Kanjilal: The Baby and the Bathwater : Secularism in the Work of a Conservative Writer Mushirul Hasan and Jamia Millia Islamia: The BJP's Intellectual Agenda : Textbooks and Imagined History Ritu Menon: 'Shed No More Blood' : Women's Peace Work in India Tanika Sarkar: Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics Martha C. Nussbaum: Fantasies of Purity and Domination : Rape and Torture in the Gujarat Riots Paul Courtright: Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus : Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Post-Colonial Moment Wendy Doniger: It Can Happen Here : The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the American Academy Mona G. Mehta: Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland : Gujarati Diaspora Politics in America Ved Nanda.: The Hindu Diaspora in the United States |
