Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe

Volker Kaul teaches at the Department of Political Science at LUISS 'Guido Carli' University in Rome and is research associate at the observatory LUISS ETHOS. He is also lecturer at the CEA Rome Center. Moreover, he works as scientific coordinator of the Istanbul/Venice Seminars for Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations. His work focuses on the nexus between identity and politics. In 2016, he published together with Seyla Benhabib a book entitled Toward New Democratic Imaginaries – Istanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics for Springer. He is co-editing since 2010 a yearly special issue of the journal Philosophy & Social Criticism on issues related to culture, religion and politics. He has another forthcoming book with Ingrid Salvatore on What is Pluralism? for Routledge.Ananya Vajpeyi is a Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. In 2019-20 she is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. She works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critical philology. She is the author of Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India (Harvard University Press, 2012) and Prolegomena to the Study of People and Places in Violent India (WISCOMP, 2007), as well as the co-editor of Ashis Nandy: A Life in Dissent (Oxford University Press, 2018).

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Framing Populism (Volker Kaul).- Chapter 2. Minorities and Populism in Modi’s India: The Mirror Effect (Ananya Vajpeyi).- Chapter 3. How to Deal With Populism (Volker Kaul).- Part II: Minorities And Populism.- Chapter 4. Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Beyond Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Welfare Chauvinism (Will Kymlicka).- Chapter 5. Theorizing Populism in India (Ajay Gudavarthy).- Chapter 6. The People and Populism (Giuseppe Zaccaria).- Part III: Muslims As Majorities And Minorities.- Chapter 7. Politics of Constitutionalism: Muslims as a Minority (Hilal Ahmed).- Chapter 8. The Rajya Sabha as a Corrective Mechanism for Muslim Underrepresentation? (Adnan Farooqui).- Chapter 9. Muslim Minorities in India: Trapped in Exclusion and Political Populism (Mohd. Sanjeer Alam).- Chapter 10. Ethno-radicalism and Socioeconomic Backwardness: Lessons from the Indian Muslim Experience (Mujibur Rehman).- Chapter 11.  How Cultural and Religious Pluralism Shapes Europe: The Role of Muslim Minorities (Stefano Allievi).- Chapter 12. Minorities Under Attack in Pakistan (Christopher Jaffrelot).- Chapter 13. Historical and Contemporary Challenges to Islam and the Secular State (Adnane Mokrane).- Chapter 14. Populist Majoritarianism in India and Pakistan: The Necessity of Minorities (Parvez Alam).- Part IV: Gender, Caste & Other Religious Minorities.- Chapter 15. Religious Minorities in a Society Monopolized by Catholicism (Enzo Pace).- Chapter 16. Christians and Christian Dalits in India: Balancing Minority Rights and Caste Claims in Law (Rowena Robinson).- Chapter 17. Women, Minorities, Populism (Marina Calloni).- Chapter 18. Armed Ethnic Conflicts in Northeast India and Resurgence of Women’s Movements (Binalakshmi Nepram).- Chapter 19. The Myth of Empowerment: Gender, Conflict, and ‘Development’ in Kashmir (Samreen Mushtaq).