Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India Volume 3

by Ainslie T. Embree

Book Overview

This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism. Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie T. Embree argues that the tension between competing visions of the just society has determined the social and political life of India. In India, as elsewhere in the world at the end of the twentieth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520303350
• ISBN13: 9780520303355
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"