Hurt Sentiments : Secularism and Belonging in South Asia / Neeti Nair.
Nair, Neeti, author.
2023
BL65
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Title Hurt Sentiments : Secularism and Belonging in South Asia / Neeti Nair.
Author Nair, Neeti, author.
ISBN 9780674292871
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674292871
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (240 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674292871 doi
Call Number BL65
Summary An insightful history of censorship, hate speech, and majoritarianism in post-partition South Asia.At the time of the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, it was widely expected that India would be secular, home to members of different religious traditions and communities, whereas Pakistan would be a homeland for Muslims and an Islamic state. Seventy-five years later, India is on the precipice of declaring itself a Hindu state, and Pakistan has drawn ever narrower interpretations of what it means to be an Islamic republic. Bangladesh, the former eastern wing of Pakistan, has swung between professing secularism and Islam.Neeti Nair assesses landmark debates since partition-debates over the constitutional status of religious minorities and the meanings of secularism and Islam that have evolved to meet the demands of populist electoral majorities. She crosses political and territorial boundaries to bring together cases of censorship in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, each involving claims of "hurt sentiments" on the part of individuals and religious communities. Such cases, while debated in the subcontinent's courts and parliaments, are increasingly decided on its streets in acts of vigilantism.Hurt Sentiments offers historical context to illuminate how claims of hurt religious sentiments have been weaponized by majorities. Disputes over hate speech and censorship, Nair argues, have materially influenced questions of minority representation and belonging that partition was supposed to have resolved. Meanwhile, growing legal recognition and political solicitation of religious sentiments have fueled a secular resistance.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: After Partition
1 Gandhi's Assassination, Godse's Defense, and the Minority Question
2 "Hindu Hurt" and the Case for Secularism in India
3 Debating the "Islamic State" in Pakistan
4 Islam and the Secular in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Epilogue: Secularism as Belonging
Abbreviations
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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