This book demonstrates the close relationship between religion and democracy in India. Religious practice creates ties among citizens that can generate positive

Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world

An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the cultivatio

In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.

While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical pa