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modern Tamil Nadu, Pages 30-55; Two cheers <strong>for</strong> reservation: the Satnamis and the<br />

steel plant by Jonathan P. Parry, Pages 128-169), Hasan, 2000 (Chapter 11: Changing<br />

terms of elite discourse—the case of reservation <strong>for</strong> ‘Other Backward Classes’<br />

By D.L. Sheth, Pages 246-268), Parish, 1997 (Chapter 6: The Indian untouchable’s<br />

critique of culture, Pages 172-197), Dirks, 2002 (Part 1: The ‘invention’ of caste,<br />

Pages 1-60; Part 4: Recasting India: caste, community, and politics, Pages 229-302),<br />

and Omvedt, 1994 (Chapters 3 and 4, Emergence of the Dalit movement, Pages 59-<br />

160).<br />

Week 7<br />

Class 1: *A discussion and critique of terms like ‘varna’, ‘jati’, the Renouncer figure,<br />

Sanskritisation and Kshatriya-isation.<br />

Class 2: *The Dalit critique of the caste system and caste assertion in Indian politics.<br />

Readings <strong>for</strong> Week 8: Excerpts from Bhargava, 1998 (Chapter 3: Religious liberty—<br />

freedom of choice or freedom of conscience by Michael J. Sandel, Pages 73-93;<br />

Chapter 4: The two thresholds of laicisation by Jean Bauberot, Pages 94-136)..<br />

Week 8<br />

Class 1: A brief overview of the trajectory of secularism and secularisation in France<br />

and the US.<br />

Class 2: A one-hour open-book exam, where students are expected to write short<br />

notes (50 – 100 words each) on 10 questions (there will be scope <strong>for</strong> choosing these<br />

10 out of 20 questions or thereabouts) based on the class lecture notes, based on<br />

lectures presented between Weeks 1-8. Each answer carries 3 marks.<br />

Readings <strong>for</strong> Week 9: Excerpts from Ahmed, 1992 (Chapter 1: Postmodernism<br />

and Islam, Pages 1-50), *Basu et al, 1993, *Chandra, 1984 (Chapter 1: What is<br />

communalism Pages 1-33), *Gandhi, 1987 (Chapter 1: Hindus and Muslims,<br />

Pages 1-18), *Gopal, 1991 (Introduction, Pages 11-21), Hawley, 1994 (Chapter 7:<br />

Fundamentalism and the control of women by Karen McCarthy Brown, Pages<br />

175-211), *Hasan, 2000 (Chapter 12: Religion and Politics in a secular state—law,<br />

community and gender by Zoya Hasan, Pages 269-289), *Jaffrelot, 1999 (Part 1:<br />

Three Hindu nationalist strategies, Pages 11-157), *Madan, 1997, Nandy, 1990<br />

(Chapter 4: Final Encounter: The politics of the assassination of Gandhi, Pages<br />

70-98), Rajan, 2002 (Chapter 3: Freedom of conscience or of choice Pages 77-116),<br />

Sivan, 1985 (Chapter 1: The mood: doom and gloom, Pages 1-15), *Vanaik, 1997 (Part<br />

I, Chapters 1, Introduction, and 2, Reflections on communalism and nationalism in<br />

India, Pages 3-62).<br />

Week 9<br />

Class 1: Understanding secularism in the context of traditional cultures in the<br />

<strong>developing</strong> world.

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