Author: Zaheer Baber
Publisher: Three Essays
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 99
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818878947X
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.
REVIEW
Zaheer Baber’s stern indictment of antisecular intellectuals should promote a revival of genuine Indian Sociology rather than their unimaginative Indology. Baber takes T N Madan, Ashis Nandy and Veena Das to task, he offers us a theory of communalism, and he advises us to consider a comparative race famework for the oppressions meted out to the socially suppressed within India: all this in a very short, readable and insightful book.
-Vijay Prashad
Contents
PREFACE
Secularism, Anti-Secularism and theoretical Bubble-Blowing
Hindutva and the Mainstreaming of Bigotry
The Racialization of communal Identity
BIBLIOGRAPHY