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100			_aRehman,Mujibur
245		0	_aCommunalism in Postcolonial India _b: Changing contours _c/ edited by Mujibur Rehman
260			_aNew Delhi / London _b: Routledge India _c,2016
300			_a290 pages
520			_aThis book reconceptualises the idea of communalism in independent India. It locates the changing contours of politics and religion in the country from the colonial times to the present day, and makes an important intervention in understanding the relationship between communalism and communal violence. It evaluates the role of state, media, civil societies, political parties, and other actors in the process as well as ideas such as secularism, nationalism, minority rights and democracy. Using new conceptual tools and an interdisciplinary approach, the work challenges the conventional understanding of communalism as time and context independent. This topical volume will be useful to scholars and researchers in South Asian politics, political science, history, sociology and social anthropology, as well as the interested general reader.
650			_aCommunalism India
650			_aCommunalism History
650			_aSecularism
650			_aReligion and Politics
700			_aRehman, Mujibur [Editor]
942			_cRBK
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