Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPriya Kumar’s cogent and theoretically sophisticated comparative readings of South Asian literary texts and films make a significant contribution to contemporary cultural engagements with religion, cosmopolitanism, secularism, and ethics.
-Sangeeta Ray, author of En-Gendering India
Limiting Secularism is a book for our times. While scrupulously specific to the context of post-Independence India, its provocations resonate well beyond the boundaries of the unique nation-space. Intellectual work at such a level of challenge and commitment does nothing less than open the doors of the mind.
-Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, co-editor of Crisis of Secularism in India
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: At Home with the Stranger
1 Rethinking Secularism
2 For God’s Sake, Open the Universe a Little More: Cosmopolitan Fictions
3 Acts of Return: Literature and Post-Partition Memory
4 Fictions of Violence: Witnessing and Survival in Partition Literature
5 It’s My Home, Too: Minoritarian Claims on the Nation
Postscript
Notes
Index
