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Wendy Doniger And Martha Nussbaum Bring Together Leading Scholars From A Wide Array Of Disciplines To Address A Crucial Question: How Does The World's Most Populous Democracy Survive Repeated Assaults On Its Pluralistic Values? Introduction / Wendy Doniger And Martha C. Nussbaum -- 1. The Politics Of History / Amartya Sen -- 2. Pluralism On Trial In Late Nineteenth-century India / Mushirul Hasan -- 3. Nehru, Religion, And The Humanities / Martha C. Nussbaum -- 4. Gandhi, Newton, And The Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami -- 5. Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism: The Indian Media And The Hindutva Campaign / Malini Parthasarathy -- 6. Clarity Begins At Home: To Nurture Pluralism And Democracy In India, The Media Needs To First Inculcate These Traits Within Itself / Antara Dev Sen -- 7. The Emergence Of A National-popular Television Aesthetics: Surveying In The 1990s Through Advertisements / Arvind Rajagopal -- 8. The Long March From Ayodhya: Democracy And Violence In India / Amrita Basu -- 9. Tokenism Or Empowerment: Policies And Institutions For Disadvantaged Communities / Zoya Hasan -- 10. Neoliberalism And The Food Crisis / Prabhat Patnaik -- 11. The Dilemma Of A Liberal Hindu / Gurcharan Das -- 12. The Role Of Poetry And Literature In Implementing A Pluralistic Democracy: Writing At The Time Of Siege / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- 13. The Baby And The Bathwater: Secularism In The Work Of A Conservative Writer / Pratik Kanjilal -- 14. The Bjp's Intellectual Agenda: Textbooks And Imagined History / Mushirul Hasan -- 15. 'shed No More Blood': Women's Peace Work In India / Ritu Menon -- 16. Violent And Violated Women In Hindu Extremist Politics / Drtanika Sarkar -- 17. Speaking About, For, To, Against, And With Hindus: Scholars And Practitioners In The Diasporic Postcolonial Moment / Paul B. Courtright -- 18 The Fight For The History Of Hinduism In The Academy / Wendy Doniger -- 19. Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland: Gujarati Diaspora Politics In America / Mona G. Mehta -- 20. The Hindu Diaspora In The United States / Ved P. Nanda. Edited By Wendy Doniger And Martha C. Nussbaum. Based On Presentations At A Conference At The University Of Chicago Law School In November 2005. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.