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Sociological traditions methods and perspectives in the sociology of India by Madan, T. N.

Table of Contents: “…Cultural traditions, sociological perspectives -- Indian secularism in a post-secular age -- Hinduism : the book view and the field view -- Islam : the universal and the particular -- Sikhism : the sacred and the secular -- Gandhi and Weber : the work eth…”

Communal riots after independence a comprehensive account by Engineer, Asghar Ali

Islam in Indonesia : the contest for society, ideas and values / by Kersten, Carool

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an intellectual history of contemporary Indonesian Islam -- Secularism, pluralism and liberalism in Indonesian Muslim contexts -- Islam in Indonesia today: discourses and interlocutors -- The weight of the predecessors: adaption, critique and transformation -- Debating secularism: Islam, statehood and democracy -- The letter or the spirit of Islamic law? …”

Indian political thought : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…The poverty of Indian political theory / Bhikhu Parekh -- Gandhi's Ambedkar / Ramachandra Guha -- The quest for justice: evoking Gandhi / Neera Chandhoke -- Tagore and his India / Amartya Sen -- Is secularism alien to Indian civilization? / Romila Thapar -- Secularism revisited: doctrine of destiny or political ideology? …”

Marx, Gandhi and modernity : essays presented to Javeed Alam /

Table of Contents: “…Personal reflections -- Reflections on secular modernity, liberalism, democracy -- Reflections on Marxism and capitalism -- Reflections on Gandhi and Indian society.…”

The Signature of power : sovereignty, governmentality and biopolitics / by Dean, Mitchell, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Signature of Power -- The Shadow of the Sovereign -- Economies of Power -- The Prince and the Population -- Enemy Secrets -- Secular Orders -- Reign and Government -- Glorious Acclaim.…”

Offence the Muslim case by Shamsie, Kamila

Table of Contents: “…A matter between Muslims -- The Pakistan story -- A war of words -- Creating the national myth -- Militant secularism -- Military Islam -- How the USA became the great Other…”

Islam, democracy, and cosmopolitanism : at home and in the world / by Mirsepassi, Ali, Fernée, Tadd Graham, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Ways of being in the world: religion and secularism; 2. Islams and modernities: Al-Azmeh's secular critique; 3. …”
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Political theory and South Asian counter-narratives / by Islam, Maidul

New Nepal the fault lines by Pandey, Nishchal Nath

Table of Contents: “…People's movement II and its aftermath -- Interim Constitution and repeated amendments -- Maoist triumph -- The fault lines -- Language as a potential source of conflict -- Secularism : onset of religious conflict? -- Security sector governance and future…”

Political Islam a critical reader by Volpi, Frederic, ed

Table of Contents: “…Critically studying political Islam -- Modern understandings and explanations of Islamism -- Political Islam, the state, and political power -- Political Islam and democratization -- Islamist movements in secular and multicultural settings -- Political Is…”

Faith in politics religion and liberal democracy by McGraw, Bryan T

Table of Contents: “…Europe's religious parties and the liberal consensus -- The argument for deliberative restraint -- The problem with secular reasons -- Public reason and religious conflict -- Religion and the problem of political autonomy -- Making the most of conflict: r…”

Indian identity narratives and the politics of security by Commuri, Gitika

Table of Contents: “…Identity and the politics of security -- National identity narratives in India : religious-cultural and secular -- National identity narratives and the politics of securing Jammu and Kashmir -- Pakistan : significant patterns in relations with the most im…”

Debating Vivekananda : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Ramakrishna Paramahansa -- section IV. Secularism -- section V. Fundamentalism -- section VI. …”

The kiss in history by Harvey, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Koslofsky -- The osculum infame : heresy, secular culture and the image of the witches' Sabbath / J. …”

Competing nationalisms in South Asia essays for Asghar Ali Engineer by Brass, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Tripathi's 'The classical poets of Gujarat and their influence on society and morals' / Sudhir Chandra -- Civic and cultural nationalism in India / Sikata Banerjee -- Secularism in India : a critique of the current disc…”

Unconditional Equality : Gandhi's Religion of Resistance / by Skaria, Ajay

Table of Contents: “…Surrender without subordination -- Before Satyagraha -- Stumbling on theological secularism -- Between two and three -- The warrior's sovereign gift -- The aneconomies of Satyagraha -- The impossible gift of fearlessness, for example -- The destruction of conservatism -- Daya otherwise -- The sacrifice of the Gita -- Ciphering the Satyagrahi -- The extreme limit of forgiveness -- The miracle of the gift.…”

Liberalization's children : gender, youth, and consumer citizenship in globalizing India / by Lukose, Ritty A., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: liberalization's children : nation, generation, and globalization -- Locating Kerala, between development and globalization -- Fashioning gender and consumption -- Romancing the public -- Politics, privatization, and citizenship -- Education, caste, and the secular -- Epilogue: consumer citizenship in the era of globalization.…”

The Aga Khan case : religion and identity in colonial India / by Purohit, Teena

Table of Contents: “…Prehistories of the Ismaili sect in nineteenth-century Bombay -- Sectarian showdown in the Aga Khan case of 1866 -- Reading Satpanth against the judicial archive -- Comparative formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan sect -- Sect and secularism in the early nationalist period.…”

Frames of war : when is life grievable? / by Butler, Judith, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time --- 4. Non-Thinking in the Name of the Normative --- 5. …”