description
These essays focus on the role of fashionable critiques and smug dismissals of secularism and modernity, and the unqualified defense of so-called indigenous traditions in providing intellectual support for the discourse of Hindutva.
"Zaheer Baber's stern indictment of anti-secular intellectuals should promote a revival of genuine Indian sociology rather than their unimaginative Indology. Baber takes T.N. Madan, Ashis Nandy and Veena Das to task, he offers us a theory of communalism, and he advises us to consider a comparative 'race' framework for the oppressions meted out to the socially suppressed within India: all this in a very short, readable and insightful book." -- Vijay Prashad
about the author
Zaheer Baber is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of 'The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization and Colonial Rule in India' (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996) and editor of 'CyberAsia: The Internet and Society in Asia' (Boston: Brill, 2005). He has published papers in a number of journals such as 'The British Journal of Sociology' and is a frequent contributor to the 'Times Literary Supplement'.
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