Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies The Case of India
This Brief looks at the illustrative case of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of lived secularism as it exists in traditional multi-faith societies such as India. The data analyzed in this Brief comprise many
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Secularism and Religion in Multifaith Societies The Case of India
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Ragini Sen • Wolfgang Wagner Caroline Howarth
Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies The Case of India
Ragini Sen Centre for Policy Research New Delhi, India
Wolfgang Wagner Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Caroline Howarth London School of Economics and Political Science London, UK
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Acknowledgements
The Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded this research, and Centre for Policy Research provided an institutional base. We are grateful to them. In particular thanks to Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Govind Saun for their cooperation and guidance. Without the hard work put in by our team of researchers and interviewers this work would have been impossible. Thanks ever so much to Anwar Hussain, Shazia S
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