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The Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India

By Aditya Nigam

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0195676068, 9780195676068
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5049708 bytes)
Pages
362\349
Time added
2022-01-17 04:17:05
DalitsDemocracyIndiainfranationalismsmarxismModernitynationalismPoliticssecular-nationalismsecularism

Description

The book explores the crisis that secular-nationalism went through with the emergence of what is loosely called identity 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 the opportunism of minority cultures and suggests this might be the result of nationalism, especially post-colonial. The book suggests that only by looking beyond the nation state can we conceive of a modern political community.

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