• ISBN13: 9780195650273
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: August 16, 1999
• Pages: 562
• Original Price: INR 750.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 430 grams

Secularism And Its Critics: Themes In Politics, edited by Bhargava Rajeev, gives the reader a thorough introduction to some of the theories of secular thought that are popular in the West as well as in India. The book also deals extensively into what the true meaning of secularism in India is. Additionally the text also gives the reader a slight view of poststructuralist and postmodern literature.The text captures a variety of thoughts on the subject of secularism by various authors. The book contains an introduction by Bhargava himself. Some of the essays included in the book are Modes of Secularism by Charles Taylor, Muslim Minorities in Liberal Democracies: The Politics of Misrecognition by Melissa S Williams and Joseph H Carens, The Difficulty of Tolerance by T M Scanlon, and Religious Liberty: Freedom of Choice or Freedom of Conscience by Michael J Sandel.Other essays featured in the book are The Two Thresholds of Laicization by Jean Bauberot, India as a Secular State by D E Smith, Hinduism, Secularism and the Indian Judiciary by Marc Galanter, Secularism in Its Place by T N Madan, and The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Toleration by Ashis Nandy.Secularism, East and West by Marc Galanter, Secularism and Tolerance by Partha Chatterjee, Secularism, Nationalism and Modernity by Akeel Bilgrami, The Crisis of Secularism in India by Stanley J Tambiah, Secularism and Its Discontents by Amartya Sen, and What is Secularism For? by Rajeev Bhargava are the last ones out of the essays listed out in the book.Secularism And Its Critics: Themes In Politics is available in paperback. The book was published by OUP India in 1999.

Rajeev Bhargava is a renowned political theorist. He graduated from the University of Delhi with a Degree in Economics and then got his MPhil and PhD from Oxford University. Bhargava began teaching at St Stephen’s College in 1979, before beginning to teach at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is now Senior Fellow and Director at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies.

Some of his other works are Multiculturalism, Liberalism And Democracy, Politics And Ethics Of The Indian Constitution, What Is Political Theory And Why Do We Need It?, The Promise Of India’s Secular Democracy and Secular States And Religious Diversity.