Description

RAM PUNIYANI
FUNDAMENTALISM
Threat to Secular Democracy
This book is a compilation of essays and articles written an various points of time in response to the threat posed to secular democracy. It deals with the process of secularization, the base of Secular Principles, the process which essentially involves the end of landlordism and the end of hold of clergy on social and political affairs. The articles and essays in this are a periodic presponse to the ongoing threat to democracy posed by politics in the name of religion the rights of weaker sections of society. It has focus on the fundamentalist politics as spread by the organisation like RSS and Taliban

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Process of Secularization: Society and Secularization in India
2. Communalism: Pre Independence India
3. Kashmir Issue: Religious or Political
4. Communalism: Post Independence
5. Communalism or Affirmative Action
6. Social Common Sense
7. Communal Violence
8. Pluralism in India
9. Politics behind Terrorism
10. Fundamentalism In India: RSS
a. Golden Gloss on Khakhi Knickers
b. RSS: Political or Cultural
c. RSS and Terrorism
11. Hindutva and Dalits
12. Yogi and Profane Laws
13. RSS and Gender Question
14. Adivasis: A Cultural Cooption
15. Song For A Nation
16. Another Ayodhya in the Making
17. Civilizations: Clash or Alliance