Limiting Secularism – The Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film

Limiting SecularismThe Ethics of Coexistence in Indian Literature and Film\nAuthor(s): Priya Kumar\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816650729, 978-0816650729\nSynopsis\nWith a backdrop of religious violence and escalating regional tensions in South Asia, Priya Kumars Limiting Secularism probes the urgent topic of secularism and tolerance in Indian culture and life. Kumar explores Partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of its marking off of Indian from Pakistani and the positioning of Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation.\n\nKumar unpacks the implications of the Nehruvian doctrine of tolerance-with all of its resonances of condescension and inequality-and asks whether more ethical cohabitation can replace the arrogant compulsive tolerance of the state and the majority. Informed by Jacques Derridas recent work on hospitality and livin.