Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Secularism’s Historical Background
7. Reflections on the Category of Secularism in India: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and the Ethics of Communal Representation, c. 1931 45
8. A View from the South: Ramasami’s Public Critique of Religion 66
9. Nehru’s Faith 89
10. II. Secularism and Democracy
11. Closing the Debate on Secularism: A Personal Statement 107
12. Living with Secularism 118
13. The Contradictions of Secularism 141
14. The Secular State and the Limits of Dialogue 157
15. Secular Nationalism, Hindutva, and the Minority 177
16. III. Sites of Secularism: Education, Media, and Cinema
17. Secularism, History, and Contemporary Politics in India 191
18. The Gujarat Experiment and Hindu National Realism: Lessons for Secularism 208
19. Secularism and Popular Indian Cinema 225
20. Neither State nor Faith: The Transcendental Significance of the Cinema 239
21. IV. Secularism and Personal Law
22. Siting Secularism in the Uniform Civil Code: A ‘‘Riddle Wrapped Inside an Enigma’’? 267
23. The Supreme Court, the Media, and the Uniform Civil Code Debate in India 294
24. Secularism and the Very Concept of Law 316
25. V. Conversion
26. Literacy and Conversion in the Discourse of Hindu Nationalism 333
27. Christian Conversions, Hindutva, and Secularism 356
28. Appendix: Chronology of the Career of Secularism in India 369
29. Works Cited 373
30. Contributors 397
31. Index 401