...but not necessarily secular, state, so as to be treated as just another element inside social “diversity.” With the Indian case mainly in mind, Bilgrami resists Taylor’s argument that we...
india
here & there
Comparative Studies in Society and History takes on the secular
by Jake Alter...Agrama on Egypt, Nandini Chatterjee on India, James McDougall on the French and Algeria, Joyce Dalsheim on Israel, Kaled Furani on Edward Said, and Kabir Tambar on Turkey, as well...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
Gandhian fraternity
by Akeel Bilgrami...are available, we must await history’s intervention in creating such internal reasons in a subject’s thought. (My example was the Indian constitutionalists” argument that they should put in a temporal...
Rethinking secularism
Religion is not a standalone category
by Timothy Fitzgerald...of gifts in Japan a religious ritual or a secular, economic exchange? One could extend the examples in many directions, for Japan, UK, USA, India and many other collective representations,...
Deathless questions and other interviews
The science of people power: An interview with Gene Sharp
by Nathan Schneider...In the North-West Frontier Province of British India, the Muslim Pashtuns, who had a reputation for great violence, became even braver and more disciplined nonviolent soldiers than the Hindus, according...
Essays
Satire and policing the boundary of free expression
by Peter Ronald deSouza...Laxman’s daily cartoon in The Times of India depicting the common man made sense to one who has had to endure the arrogance and daily stupidity of Indian politics. Trevor...
here & there
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond
by Charles Gelman...Gonkar Gyatso, Tenzing Rigdol, Losang Gyatso, and Dedron. Several of the artists were born in Tibet while others come from Nepal or one of the large Tibetan settlements in India....
here & there
Pakistan takes on Islamism
by Laura Duane...crucial. So is greater maturity by India, which must revive stalled peace talks with Pakistan on the disputed territory of Kashmir, because reducing the threat along the Indo-Pakistan border would...