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
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