Limiting secularism : the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film

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Limiting secularism : the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film

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the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film

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Priya Kumar

Creator

• Kumar, Priya

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• India
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian | Indic
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
• Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India
• Secularism in literature
• 1900 - 1999
• Secularism in motion pictures
• Secularism in motion pictures
• South Asian literature
• South Asian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• South Asian literature -- Moral and ethical aspects
• TRAVEL -- Special Interest | Literary
• Secularism in literature

Genre

• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

With a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumars Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of Indian" from "Pakistani" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation. Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabita

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Illustrations

illustrations

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non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography