Meera Nanda s book is an impassioned plea for secularization of mentalities. She compares the secular polities of India and America to argue that, faced with the current right wing assault, secular constitutions alone cannot guarantee secularism. She examines how India s major ecological movements have been reframed by Brahminical Hinduism with some unintended but crucial help from those within these movements. Her work shows the interconnections between the Hindutva scientism and national chauvinism, a factor crucial for its middle class support and its reactionary modernism . Table of Contents 1. Secularism Without Secularization? Reflections on the Religious Right in America and India 2. Hindu Ecology in the Age of Hindutva: The Dangers of Religious Environmentalism 3. Making Science Sacred: How Postmodernism Aids Vedic Science

The Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva

Meera Nanda

Three Essays Collectives

<p>These essays focus on the various forms of collective violence that have occurred in India during the past six decades, which include riots, pogroms, and genocide. It is argued that these various forms of violence must be understood not as spontaneous outbreaks of passion, but as productions by organized groups. Moreover, it is also evident that government and its agents do not always act to control violence, but often engage in or permit gratuitous acts of violence against particular groups under the cover of the imperative of restoring order, peace, and tranquility. This has certainly been the case in numerous incidents of collective violence in India where curfew restrictions have been used for just such purposes. In this context, secularism constitutes a countervailing practice, and a set of values that are essential to maintain balance in a plural society where the organization of intergroup violence is endemic, persistent, and deadly.</p>

Forms of Collective Violence Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India

Politics & Social Sciences

Paul R. Brass

Social Sciences

<p>This book is a study of commercial relations between north India, the Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara and Russia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Studies of India s foreign trade have tended to overlook commercial flows passing through the north-western frontier, destined for Afghanistan, Central Asia and Russia. This volume attempts to redress this imbalance. It does this by initially identifying the geographical and political factors that complicated the trade as well as afforded merely tentative estimates of its volumes. In the chapters that follow, the economic power of Sindhi bankers from Shikarpur over most of south Central Asia is explained and the reliance upon nomad Afghan horse traders to transport textiles, spices, bullion, gems and drugs over the Himalayas detailed. The existence of a substantial body of British military intelligence is used to buttress the commercial fortunes of the principal trade marts of Multan and Shikarpur in the nineteenth century. Finally, the book seeks to provide a historical context to established scholarship on Indo-Russian trade in the twentieth century by probing into its origins from the seventeenth century.</p>

Old Routes North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands

Arup Banerji

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The Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva

Forms of Collective Violence Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India

Old Routes North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands