Description
These essays focus on the role of fashionable critiques and smug dismissals of secularism and modernity, and the unqualified defense of so-called indigenous traditions in providing intellectual support for the discourse of Hindutva.
CONTENTS
Preface
- Secularism, Anti-Secularism and “Theoretical Bubble-Blowing”
- Hindutva and the Mainstreaming of Bigotry
- The “Racialization” of Communal Identity
Bibliography
Cover photo: William Gedney
Zaheer Baber
Zaheer Baber is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of ‘The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization and Colonial Rule in India’ (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996) and editor of ‘CyberAsia: The Internet and Society in Asia’ (Boston: Brill, 2005). He has published papers in a number of journals such as ‘The British Journal of Sociology’ and is a frequent contributor to the ‘Times Literary Supplement’.
