Secularization and 'constitutive moments': insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia
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Chatterji, Joya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4981-9602
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This essay proposes an argument – on the face of it, both outlandish and paradoxical – that the violent upheavals of partition, which divided British India along religious lines, encouraged trends towards secularization in India and Pakistan. In the very months when the subcontinent was engulfed in religious conflict, both countries took significant steps to produce common institutions – indeed a common statecraft -- to manage mass migration and lawlessness across the new borders that divided them. I suggest this process secularized both states simultaneously in specific, admittedly partial, but remarkably similar, ways.
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Secularization and 'constitutive moments': insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia
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Democracy
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Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia
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Cambridge University Press
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1108450245
9781108450249
9781108450249