TY - BOOK AU - Doniger, Wendy TI - Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right SN - 9780195395532 U1 - S94.1 PY - 2015/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Pluralism KW - Hindutva KW - Hinduism and Politics KW - Democracy Religious Aspects KW - India - Civilizations N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. The past and the present The politics of History .....21 Pluralism on Trial late Nineteenth Century India ..........35 Nehru, Religion , and Humanities ......51 Gandhi, Newton and the Enlightenment .........68 2. Democratic Media Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism ............89 Clarity Begins at Home: To Nurture pluralism and Democracy in India ..............105 The Emergence of a National- Popular Television Aesthetics.............124 3. Political Parties and Movement The long march from Ayodhya: Democracy and violences in India .........153 Tokenism or Empowerment .......174 Neoloberalism and the food crisis .............191 4. Creating an Inclusive public Culture The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu .........207 The role of Poetry and literature in Implimenting pluralistic democracy .............220 The baby and the Bathwater:Secularism in the work of a Coservative writer...............233 The Bjp`s Intellectual Agenda ..........243 5: Gender and Democracy Shed no more blood ............269 Violent and Violated women in hindu extremist Politics ..............280 6. India`s Politics on the US stage Speaking about, For, to, Against, and with Hindus..................299 The fight for the History of Hinduism in the Academy .......310 Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland ..............327 The Hindu Diaspora in the United States ..........346 ER -