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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790198703321

Titolo

Religion, communities and development : changing contours of politics and policy in India / / editors, Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder S. Jodhka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi [India] : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

0-203-81407-X

1-136-70456-6

Descrizione fisica

xii, 336 p. : ill

Collana

Religion and citizenship

Altri autori (Persone)

JodhkaSurinder S

MahajanGurpreet

Disciplina

327.54

Soggetti

Economic development - India

Religion and politics - India

Muslims - India - Social conditions

Muslims - India - Economic conditions

Muslims - Government policy - India

India Politics and government 1947-

India Economic policy 1947-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Religion, community and development / Gurpreet Mahajan -- 2. Political communalisation of religious and the crisis of secularism / D.L. Sheth -- 3. The sachar committee report and multiculturalism in India : questions of group equality and the public sphere / Amir Ali -- 4. Hindutva's discourse on development / Pralay Kanungo -- 5. Seva, Sangathanas and Gurus : service and the making of the Hindu nation / Sujata Patel -- 6. Development as liberation : an Indian Christian perspective / Rudolf C. Heredia -- 7. Indian Christians : trajectories of development / Rowena Robinson -- 8. Sikhs today : development, disparity and difference / Surinder S. Jodhka -- 9. Contemporary Muslim situation in India : a long-term view / Javeed Alam -- 10. Between identity and equity : an agenda for affirmative action for Muslims / Tanweer Fazal -- 11. Struggle for the margin or from the margin / Gopal Guru -- 12. Literacy, education and gender gap among socio-religious communities / Ravinder Kaur -- 13. Cultural rights of



minorities during constitution-making : a re-reading / Rochana Bajpai -- 14. The Goan Muslim : presence through invisibility / V. SriRanjani.

Sommario/riassunto

Papers presented at a seminar organized at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Mar., 2007.