Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia Nair Neeti
Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia Nair Neeti An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan…
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Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia Nair Neeti
An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, it was widely expected that India would be secular, home to members of different religious traditions and communities, whereas Pakistan would be a homeland for Muslims and an Islamic state. Bangladesh, the former eastern wing of Pakistan, has swung between professing secularism and Islam.Neeti Nair assesses landmark debates since partition--debates over the constitutional status of religious minorities and the meanings of secularism and Islam that have evolved to meet the demands of populist electoral majorities. Seventy-five years later, India is on the precipice of declaring itself a Hindu state, and Pakistan has drawn ever narrower interpretations of what it means to be an Islamic republic.
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