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Author Tejani, Shabnum

Title Indian secularism : a social and intellectual history, 1890-1950 / Shabnum Tejani
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press [2008]

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Contents Introduction -- I. Nationalism. A Hindu community in Maharashtra? Cow protection, ganpati festivals, and music before Mosques 1893-1894 ; Regionalism to nationalism: Swadeshi and the new patriotism in Maharashtra 1905-1910 -- II. Communalism. From 'religious community' to 'communal minority': Muslims and the debates around constitutional reform 1906-1909 ; The question of Muslim autonomy: the Khilafat movement and the separation of Sind 1919-1932 -- III. Secularism. From untouchable to Hindu: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the depressed classes question 1932 ; From nationalism to secularism: defining the secular citizen 1946-1950
Summary Tracing the social, political, and intellectual genealogies of the concepts of secularism and communalism from the late nineteenth century until the ratification of the Indian constitution in 1950, she shows how secularism came to be bound up with ideas about nationalism and national identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Secularism -- India -- History -- 20th century
Communalism -- India -- History -- 20th century
Religion and politics -- India -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
Nationalism -- India -- Religious aspects
Hinduism.
Hinduism.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Communalism
Hinduism
Nationalism -- Religious aspects
Religion and politics
Secularism
Säkularismus
India
Indien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021700635
ISBN 9780253058331
0253058333
9780253058324
0253058325