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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