Identity politics in India and Europe / Michael Dusche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dusche, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity politics--India.

Identity politics.

Identity politics--Europe.

Group identity--India.

Group identity.

Group identity--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 375 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book examines present perceptions of East and West seen through the eyes of eminent scholars from India. The interviews presented here are set in the historical context of relations between Europe and the Muslim World and analysed from a theoretical angle drawing from theories of modernity, conceptions of justice and notions of identity politics.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 'Europe' and 'The Muslim World': A Brief History of Reciprocal Perceptions; Late Antiquity to the Beginnings of the Modern Era; Encounters in the Late Roman World; Islam in Western Europe: Al-Andalus; Encounter in the Levant: The Crusades; At the Gates of Vienna: The Ottomans in Europe; The Reformation: Ushering in the Modern Era; Part II: The Global Condition:Modernity and Its Critics; Culture and Identity in Modern Politics; The World Polity Approach; Institution; Decoupling; Actor and Action; Rationality and Rationalisation

Religion and the 'Religious'Progress and Teleology; Principal and Agent; Scientifi c Rationality; The Modern Self; The Liberal System Globalised; The World Polity; Diffusion; The Statelessness of the World Polity; Inclusion and Exclusion; Identity; Language; Culture; The Political; Inclusive versus Identity Politics; Identity Politics in Europe; Identity Politics in India; Freedom to Non-development; Development as Freedom; Identity Politics and the Ramjanmabhumi Movement; Part III: Intellectual Elites and Normative Ordersin India, Israel, Palestine and Turkey

Introduction: Survey and InterviewsAshok Acharya; Imtiaz Ahmad; Anwar Alam; Rajeev Bhargava; Asoke Bhattacharya; Anil Bhatti; Roma Chatterji; Asghar Ali Engineer; Anjan Ghosh; Qutub Kidwai and Shirin Huda; Gurpreet Mahajan; Shail Mayaram; Deepak Mehta; Salil Misra; Ashis Nandy; Aditya Nigam; Devdutt Pattanaik; Dhruv Raina; Ruby Sain; Zeenat Shaukat Ali; Virginius Xaxa; Appendix: Binary Oppositions in Counter-hegemonic Discourse; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612503429

9789352801923

935280192X

9781282503427

1282503421

9788132104872

8132104870

OCLC:

593295593