The Secular Imaginary
Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India
- Author: Sushmita Nath, Universität Leipzig
- Date Published: November 2022
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- isbn: 9781009180290
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Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India's electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly 'Western' concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of cognates, like secularism, secularisation and secularity in non-Western societies without assuming them simply as derivative, or colonial legacies or contrast cases of Western societies? While recognizing that the dominant language of political modernity of Western societies is not easily translatable in non-Western societies, The Secular Imaginary elaborates upon an intellectual history of secularity in modern India by focusing on the two most influential political leaders – M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. It is an intellectual history of both idea(s) and intellectuals, which sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity – the Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism, and unity in diversity. It revisits this dominant narrative of secularity of the twentieth century that influenced and shaped the imagination of the modern nation-state.
Read more- Shifts attention from author-centric studies to narratives and ideas/concepts that have been central to modern India's social imaginary
- Explores the dominant Gandhi-Nehru tradition of the twentieth century that had a major influence on Indian secularism
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- Date Published: November 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009180290
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Debating the secular beyond the west
2. Gandhi's ashram and political thought: a counter-narrative of secularity
3. Gandhi's associationalism: a non-state alternative to liberal secularism?
4. Was Nehru Nehruvian? Religion, secularity, and Nehruism
5. Nehru and the politics of liberalism of fear
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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