The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Tolerance

Lokhandwala Shamoon T. , ‘Indian Islam: Composite Culture and Integration’, New Quest, March-April 1985, vol 50, pp 87–101.

For instance, Chatterjee Partha , National Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Miller Donald F. , ‘Six Theses on the Question of Religion and Politics in India Today’, Economic and Political Weekly, 25 July 1987, pp 57–63.

Madan T.N. , ‘Secularism in its Place’, The Journal of Asian Studies, November 1987, Vol 46, pp. 747–759.

Khan Ali Akhtar , ‘Secularism and Aligarh School’, The Times of India, 2 December 1986.

Ahmed Imtiaz , ‘Muslims and Boycott Call: Political Realities Ignored’, The Times of India, 14 January 1987.

Singh Gurbachan , ‘Where's the Indian?’, The Times of India, 21 September 1986.

Anand Mulk Raj , ‘New Light on Iqbal’, Indian Express, 22 September 1985.

Raza Rahi Masoom , in ‘How to Resolve the Babari Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi Dispute’, Sunday Observer, 18 January 1987; and ‘In Favour of Change’ (Letter to the Editor), The Illustrated Weekly of India, 16 March 1986.

Patel Raojibhai C. , ‘Building Secular State; Need to Subordinate Religion’, The Times of India, 17 September 1986.

‘Pak a Few Steps from Bomb’, The Times of India, 29 January 1987.

A comparable example from outside India will be the untitled case study of the 1983 riots in Sri Lanka, paper presented at the workshop on New Dimensions of Ethnic Violence in South Asia, Kathmandu, 15–17 February 1987.

Fromm Erich , Escape from Freedom (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1941); Bruno Bettelheim, Surviving and Other Essays (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979); Adorno T.W. , The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Norton, 1950); and Milton Rokeach, The Open and Closed Mind (New York: Basic Books, 1960).

Kakar Sudhir , ‘Some Unconscious Aspects of Ethnic Violence in India’, paper presented at the Workshop on New Dimensions of Ethnic Violence in South Asia, Kathmandu, 15–17 February 1987.

Fromm Erich , Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973); Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (New York: Viking, 1963); On Violence (London: Allen and Unwin, 1969); and Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973).

Alexander Mitscherlich Margarete , The Inability to Mourn: Principles of Collective Behaviour (New York: Grove, 1984).

That is, in terms of what Tarique Banuri calls the impersonality postulate in his ‘A Critical Review of Modernization Theories’, paper presented at the Meeting on Technological Transformation in Traditional Societies: Alternative Approaches, Helsinki, July 1986. See also Nandy Ashis , ‘Science, Authoritarianism and Culture: On the Scope and Limits of Isolation Outside the Clinic’, in Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp 95–126.

Quoted in Ananthu T.S. , Going Beyond the Intellect: A Gandhian Approach to Scientific Education (New Delhi, Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1981), mimeo, p 1.