Edited by Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum
Offers a uniquely cross-disciplinary approach, which considers democracy's past and future in India in connection with the arts, the media, the history and current practice of political debate, and religious questions
Includes essays from leading scholars
Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values?
India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been supported since Independence by a political structure that emphasizes equal rights for all, and protects liberties of religion and speech. But a decent Constitution does not implement itself, and challenges to these core values repeatedly arise-most recently in the form of the Hindu Right movements of the twenty-first century that threatened to destabilize the nation and upend its core values, in the wake of a notorious pogrom in the state of Gujarat in which approximately 2000 Muslim civilians were killed. Click here to read more
About the editors
Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago.
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Reviews
"A timely conversation about the resilience of India's pluralist democracy."—Niraja G. Jayal, Professor, Center for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University
ISBN 9780195395532
Paperback | 416 Pages
30.04.2015
Rs. 895
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