This book puts together the most important contemporary writings in the debate on secularism.
It deals with conceptual, normative and explanatory issues in secularism and addresses …

Though the election of a Congress-led coalition has opened up new opportunities for secular
space, only someone with a blinkered vision would assert that the growth of militant Hindu …

Written over the last two decades, these essays answers important questions on secularism.
Some of the topics covered are the democratic vision of the new republic of India, the …

In this article I consider the epistemic injustice of colonialism. I define epistemic injustice as
a form of cultural injustice that occurs when the concepts and categories by which a people …

Hardly anyone disputes Amartya Sen's claim that" when India became independent nearly
half a century ago, much emphasis was placed on its secularism, and there were few voices …

The literature on methodological individualism is characterized by a widely held view that if
the doctrine were stated with sufficient care it would be seen to be trivially true. This book …

2 The Catholic Encyclopedia of Religion defines Theocracy as a form of political government
in which the deity directly rules the people or the rule of priestly caste. The rule of Brahmin in …

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The first claim of this chapter is that the primary function of a truth commission is to help a
barbaric society become minimally decent and, in the aftermath of evil, to reinstate confidence …

Political secularism has little or no conception of community. It is non-communitarian. From
this it does not follow that there are no secular communitarians and that to live together well …