Identity Politics in India and Europe (eBook)

Introduction
I: "EUROPE" AND "THE MUSLIM WORLD" / A BRIEF HISTORY OF RECIPROCAL PERCEPTIONS
Late Antiquity to the Beginnings of the Modern Era
Encounters in the late Roman World
Islam in Western Europe: Al-Andalus
Encounter in the Levant: the Crusades
At the gates of Vienna: the Ottomans in Europe
The Reformation: Ushering in the Modern Era
II: THE GLOBAL CONDITION: MODERNITY AND ITS CRITICS
Culture and Identity in Modern Politics
The World Polity Approach
Institution
Decoupling
Actor and Action
Rationality and Rationalisation
Religion and the 'Religious'
Progress and Teleology
Principal and Agent
Scientific Rationality
The Modern Self
The Liberal System Globalised
The World Polity
Diffusion
The Statelessness of the World Polity
Inclusion and Exclusion
Identity
Language
Culture
Politics
Inclusive versus Identity Politics
Identity Politics in Europe
Identity Politics in India
Freedom to Non-Development
Development as Freedom
Identity Politics and the Ramjanmabhumi Movement
III: INTELLECTUAL ELITES AND NORMATIVE ORDERS IN INDIA, ISRAEL/PALESTINE AND TURKEY
Introduction: Survey and Interviews
Ashok Acharya
Imtiaz Ahmad
Anwar Alam
Rajeev Bhargava
Asoke Bhattacharya
Anil Bhatti
Roma Chatterji
Asghar Ali Engineer
Anjan Ghosh
Qutub Jehan Kidwai & Shirin Huda
Gurpreet Mahajan
Shail Mayaram
Deepak Mehta
Salil Misra
Ashis Nandy
Aditya Nigam
Devdutt Pattanaik
Druv Raina
Ruby Sain
Zeenat Shaukat Ali
Virginius Xaxa
Appendix: Binary Oppositions in Counter-hegemonic Discourse
References
Index