02754cam a22004098i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000300008802000270011804000230014504200080016804300120017605000240018808200210021208400230023310000290025624500870028526300090037226400890038130000130047033600260048333700280050933800270053750400510056452011560061560000340177160000350180565000230184065000500186377601710191390600450208494200480212995201500217799900170232722748126OSt20230921121557.0220812s2022    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2022038091  a9781009180290q(hardback)  z9781009180306q(ebook)  aDLCbengerdacDLC  apcc  aa-ii---00aBL2765.I4bN37 202200a211.60954bNAT/S  aPOL0100002bisacsh1 aNath, Sushmita,eauthor.14aThe secular imaginary :bGandhi, Nehru, and the idea(s) of India /cSushmita Nath.  a2211 1aCambridge, United Kingdom ;aNew York, NY, USA :bCambridge University Press,c2022.  apages cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"Given the popularity and success of the Hindu right in India's electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly 'Western' concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of cognates, like secularism, secularisation and secularity, in non-Western societies without assuming them to be simply derivative or colonial legacies or contrast cases of Western societies? In other words, what is the discourse of secularity in modern India? While recognising that the dominant language of political modernity of Western societies is not easily translatable in non-Western societies, The Secular Imaginary elaborates upon an intellectual history of secularity in modern India by focusing on the two most influential political leaders - M. K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. It is an intellectual history of both idea(s) and intellectuals which sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity - the Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism and 'unity in diversity'. It revisits this dominant narrative of secularity of the twentieth century, which influenced and shaped the imagination of the modern nation-state"--cProvided by publisher.10aGandhi,cMahatma,d1869-1948.10aNehru, Jawaharlal,d1889-1964. 0aSecularismzIndia. 7aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory2bisacsh08iOnline version:aNath, Sushmita.tSecular imaginarydCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022z9781009180306w(DLC) 2022038092  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBKh211.60954iNAT/Sk211.60954mNAT/S  00102ddc40708RELIGIONaMESbMEScHISd2023-09-21l1o211.60954 NAT/Sp42542r2024-09-30 10:52:29s2024-09-25v1395.00w2023-09-21yBKzGL42R1  c42240d42240