The Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India

by Aditya Nigam

The book explores the crisis that secular-nationalism went through with the emergence of what is loosely called identity politics. With the rise of new political assertions on the one hand and sectarian tendencies on the other, the fundamentally Hindu assumptions of Nehruvian secular-nationalism were revealed. Its search for a homogeneous national culture has led it to produce the dominant culture as the norm and marginalize the minority. It also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195676068
• ISBN13: 9780195676068
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 362 Pages