Pluralism and democracy in India : Debating the Hindu right

Table of contents
Contributors;
Introduction:
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum;
I.The Past and the Present;
The Politics of History - Amartya Sen;
Pluralism on Trial in Late Nineteenth-Century India - Mushirul Hasan;
Nehru, Religion, and the Humanities - Martha C. Nussbaum;
Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment - Akeel Bilgrami;
II. Democratic Media;
Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism: The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign
Malini Parthasarathy; Clarity Begins at Home - Antara Dev Sen;
From a Compartmental Society to Growing Violence and Corruption: Surveying in the 1990s through Advertisements - Arvind Rajagopal;
III. Political Parties and Movements;
The Long March from Ayodhya: Democracy and Violence in India - Amrita Basu;
Tokenism or Empowerment? Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities - Zoya Hasan;
Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis - Prabhat Patnaik;
IV. Creating an Inclusive Public Culture Gurcharan Das, The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu;
The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy: Writing at the Time of Siege - Nabaneeta Dev Sen;
The Baby and the Bathwater: Secularism in the Work of a Conservative Writer - Pratik Kanjilal;
The BJP's Intellectual Agenda: Textbooks and Imagined History - Mushirul Hasan and Jamia Millia Islamia;
V. Gender and Democracy;
'Shed No More Blood': Women's Peace Work in India - Ritu Menon;
Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics - Tanika Sarkar;
Fantasies of Purity and Domination: Rape and Torture in the Gujarat Riots - Martha C. Nussbaum;
VI. India's Politics on the U.S. Stage;
Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus: Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Post-Colonial Moment - Paul Courtright;
The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the American Academy - Wendy Doniger;
Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland: Gujarati Diaspora Politics in America - Mona G. Mehta;
The Hindu Diaspora in the United States - Ved Nanda;
Notes;
Index