State, Nation, Religion

State, Nation, Religion: Politics and the Public Sphere in Modern India brings together essays that examine the entanglements of state, nation, religion and politics in twentieth- and twenty-first-century India. An important intervention in debates on religious nationalism and public life, the volume challenges neat distinctions between the religious and the secular by highlighting their deep historical and everyday interconnections, while tracing the colonial genealogies of religious nationalism and their imprint on democratic politics. From the juridical rights of deities to constructions of exclusionary, racialised citizenship in Northeast India and the reconfiguration of Kashmir.