Communal Threat To Secular Democracy

Year:2010,Binding:Hardcover,Pages:344,Language:English, Description:- , About The Author:- Former Professor IIT Mumbai, has been working for promotion of plural, secular democratic values since 1992. Has been writing on these issues regularly,also conducting workshops and delivering lectures on themes related to threat of fundamentalism, communalism, and terrorism. Is associated with Center for Study of Society and Secularism, Anhad and All India Secular Forum. Has written several books, Contours of Hindu Rashtra (Kalpaz, 2001), Communal Politics: Facts versus Myths (2003), Religion Power and Violence (2005), Mumbai Post 26/11 (2009) (SAGE), Second Assassination of Gandhi (2002, Leicester University) and Dalits and Social Justice (2008, Mythri, Trivandrum). Recipient of Maharashtra Foundation (Communal harmony), 2002; Association for Communal Harmony, Star Award 2003; Indira Gandhi National Integration Award 2006 and National Communal Harmony Award 2007., Contents:- Contents # Preface.: Introduction.: 1. Religion and Modern Society.: 2. Religious Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence.: 3. Secularism.: Secularization and Human Rights.: 4. India : Nation in the Making.: 5. Social Roots of Partition Process.: 6. Jaswant.: Jinnah and Ghost of India