03159nam 2200661Ia 450 991078183900332120230414184501.00-8166-5665-7(CKB)1000000000485011(EBL)334230(OCoLC)476140800(SSID)ssj0000192494(PQKBManifestationID)11179182(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192494(PQKBWorkID)10197589(PQKB)11755059(MiAaPQ)EBC334230(OCoLC)216934447(MdBmJHUP)muse39381(Au-PeEL)EBL334230(CaPaEBR)ebr10215804(CaONFJC)MIL526117(EXLCZ)99100000000048501120070807h20082008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLimiting secularism the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film /Priya KumarMinneapolis ;London :University of Minnesota Press,2008.©20081 online resource (xxvii, 299 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-5073-X 0-8166-5072-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: At Home with the Stranger; 1 Rethinking Secularism; 2 For God's Sake, Open the Universe a Little More: Cosmopolitan Fictions; 3 Acts of Return: Literature and Post-Partition Memory; 4 Fictions of Violence: Witnessing and Survival in Partition Literature; 5 It's My Home, Too: Minoritarian Claims on the Nation; Postscript; Notes; IndexWith a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumars Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of Indian"" from ""Pakistani"" and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation.Kumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabitation can repSouth Asian literature20th centuryHistory and criticismSouth Asian literatureMoral and ethical aspectsMotion picturesMoral and ethical aspectsIndiaSecularism in literatureSecularism in motion picturesSouth Asian literatureHistory and criticism.South Asian literatureMoral and ethical aspects.Motion picturesMoral and ethical aspectsSecularism in literature.Secularism in motion pictures.809/.8954Kumar Priya1468096MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781839003321Limiting secularism3679061UNINA