Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty,
biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative
liberal and secular understanding of India s religious identity is
translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence
against minoritized religious communities. Extending these concepts
to an analysis of historical, political and legal genealogies of
conversion, the author demonstrates how a concern for sovereignty
links past and present anti-conversion campaigns and laws.
The book illustrates how sovereignty informs the making of
secularism as well as religious difference. The focus on
sovereignty sheds light on the manner in which religious difference
becomes a point of reference for the religio-secular idioms of
Bombay cinema, for legal judgements on communal violence, for human
rights organizations, and those seeking justice for communal
violence. This wide-ranging examination and discussion of the
trajectories of (anti) conversion politics through historical,
legal, philosophical, popular cultural, archival and ethnographic
material offers a cogent argument for shifting the stakes and
rethinking the relationship between sovereignty and religious
freedom. The book is a timely contribution to broader theoretical
and political discussions of (post) secularism and human rights,
and is of interest to students and scholars of postcolonial
studies, cultural studies, law, and religious studies.
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