Rövid leírás:
This book argues that in times of crises, Nehruvian secular-nationalism has shown itself to be fundamentally Hindu in its latent assumptions. Its quest for a national culture has led it to produce the dominant culture as the norm and so marginalise minority cultures.
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Hosszú leírás:
The book explores the crisis that secular-nationalism went through with the emergence of what is loosely calledidentity politics . With the rise of new political assertions on the one hand and sectarian tendencies on the other, the fundamentally Hindu assumptions of Nehruvian secular-nationalism were revealed. Its search for a homogeneous national culture has led it to produce the dominant culture as the norm and marginalize the minority. It also looks at theopportunismof
minority cultures and suggests this might be the result of nationalism, especially post-colonial. The book suggests that only by looking beyond the nation form inpost-nationaldirections can a modern political community be conceived of.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction / Ch 1Nationalism, Democracy, and the Postcolonial World / Ch 2Nation and Infranationalisms: Secular-Nationalism Comes Apart / Ch 3Antinomies of Secularism: The Indian Career of the Concept / Ch 4The Impossible Nation: The ModernIndianSelf in Search of History / Ch 5 Secularism, Modernity, Nation: An Epistemology of the Dalit Critique / Ch 6Secularism the Marxist Way:HighTheory and LowPractice / Conclusion /
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