Will Secular India Survive?

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Contributed articles on secularism, religious fundamentalism, and state machinery in India. Introduction / Mashirul Hasan -- 'On equal conditions' : constitutions as protectors of the vulnerable / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Re-presenting the secular agenda for India / Neera Chandhoke -- Secularism and the identity trap / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Anxieties, identities, complexity, reality / Satish Saberwal -- In bad faith / Amitava Kumar -- The BJP's intellectual agenda : textbooks and imagined history / Mushirul Hasan -- The cast(e) of anti-secularism / Radhika Desai -- Indian politics at the crossroads : toward elections 2004 / Aijaz Ahmad -- Social inequalities, secularism and minorities in India's democracy / Zoya Hasan -- Whither Minorities Commission? / Tahir Mahmood -- Muslims in secular India : problems and prospects in education / Mushirul Hasan -- Prose after Gujarat : violence, secularism and democracy in India / Amita Basu and Srirupa Roy -- The cry of the terrorist : the absentee discourse of social humiliation / Dipankar Gupta -- Notes from the Fouth Estate / Hasan Suroor.