C.S. Adcock (Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies and Religio

Limits of Tolerance

Indian Secularism and the Politics of Religious Freedom

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance. Examining debates surrounding the activities of the Arya Samaj - a Hindu reform organization regarded as the exemplar of intolerance - it finds that Tolerance functioned to disengage Indian secularism from the politics of caste.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780199995448
• ISBN-10: 0199995443
• Artikelnr.: 38394313

Autorenporträt

C. S. Adock is Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies and Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: History and the Limits of Tolerance
Part I: Religion and Translation in Colonial India
Chapter One. The Colonial Politics of Religious Toleration
Chapter Two. Religious Controversy and Ritual-Politics: Problems of
Translation
Part II. The Political History of Universal Religion in India
Chapter Three. The Fountainhead of Religion
Chapter Four: "The Arya Samaj, a Political Body!"
Part III. Ritual-Politics and Religious Freedom
Chapter Five. The Contested Politics of Shuddhi
Chapter Six. The Ascendance of Tolerance: Debating
Religious Freedom in the 1920s
Conclusion. Secularism and the Limits of Tolerance
Bibliography
Notes
Index