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This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first
time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South
Asia and Europe from a critical perspective. Despite the very
different and to some extent opposite historical and political
trajectories, there is today a convergence on nationalist
affirmation and on majoritarian politics between South Asia and
Europe. In India, the Hindu majority rebels against wide-ranging
minority rights anchored in the Constitution. In Europe, the
refugee crisis and Islamic radicalization bring to the forefront
the postcolonial legacy. Despite all rhetoric, there are obvious
dangers of majoritarianism. Populist parties are divisive,
partisan, disregard minority rights, engage in lynching, social
division, stigmatization and exclusion, turning minorities into
second-class citizens. There is a profound structural connection
between minorities and the current rise of populism in India and
Europe. But there remains a deep perplexity and also anxiety: Does
the presence of minorities necessarily have to trigger majoritarian
policies? Are there no solutions to this dilemma? Many observers
considered multicultural policies and affirmative action programs
in India as a possible model for Europe to adopt in order to
achieve greater integration. But eventually they seem to have
failed. Why so? Are multiculturalism and the recognition of
differences still options today? On the other hand, most scholars
in India typically reject the European model of liberal democracy
and secularism as impracticable in India and locate the reason for
the current malaise in the west. But is liberal democracy really so
bad in dealing with pluralism? This volume, collecting a selection
of the Reset DOC Venice-Padua-Delhi dialogue series, is going to
answer two fundamental questions. First, what precisely is the
nexus between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe?
Starting from those case studies, the authors will also draw some
general theoretical inferences about the nature of populism.
Secondly, given the dangers of populism for minorities, the volume
will look for the most adequate and feasible solutions.
This volume assembles renowned scholars to address, for the first
time, the relationship between minorities and populism in South
Asia and Europe from a critical perspective. Despite the very
different and to some extent opposite historical and political
trajectories, there is today a convergence on nationalist
affirmation and on majoritarian politics between South Asia and
Europe. In India, the Hindu majority rebels against wide-ranging
minority rights anchored in the Constitution. In Europe, the
refugee crisis and Islamic radicalization bring to the forefront
the postcolonial legacy. Despite all rhetoric, there are obvious
dangers of majoritarianism. Populist parties are divisive,
partisan, disregard minority rights, engage in lynching, social
division, stigmatization and exclusion, turning minorities into
second-class citizens. There is a profound structural connection
between minorities and the current rise of populism in India and
Europe. But there remains a deep perplexity and also anxiety: Does
the presence of minorities necessarily have to trigger majoritarian
policies? Are there no solutions to this dilemma? Many observers
considered multicultural policies and affirmative action programs
in India as a possible model for Europe to adopt in order to
achieve greater integration. But eventually they seem to have
failed. Why so? Are multiculturalism and the recognition of
differences still options today? On the other hand, most scholars
in India typically reject the European model of liberal democracy
and secularism as impracticable in India and locate the reason for
the current malaise in the west. But is liberal democracy really so
bad in dealing with pluralism? This volume, collecting a selection
of the Reset DOC Venice-Padua-Delhi dialogue series, is going to
answer two fundamental questions. First, what precisely is the
nexus between minorities and populism in South Asia and Europe?
Starting from those case studies, the authors will also draw some
general theoretical inferences about the nature of populism.
Secondly, given the dangers of populism for minorities, the volume
will look for the most adequate and feasible solutions.
What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as
they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely
understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge
traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as
they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In
Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account,
a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought.
Taking five of the most important founding figures-Mohandas Gandhi,
Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B.
R. Ambedkar-Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical
texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The
diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed
themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita,
Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and
architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India's founders
went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical
frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a
portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and
cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian
knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social
questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence.
Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance,
the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would
allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new
republic they envisaged would embody both India's struggle for
sovereignty and its quest for the self.
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