Pluralism and Equality

Partha S. Ghosh is an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) National Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. Till recently he was a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. Earlier he was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His previous academic positions are: Visiting Professor, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (OKDISCD), Guwahati; Humboldt Fellow, Heidelberg University; Ford Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He has also served as a Visiting Professor for short durations at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH), Paris; University of Bordeaux; Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair in Indian Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; and University of Heidelberg. For many years Professor Ghosh served as the Research Director at the ICSSR, New Delhi. His areas of interest are South Asian politics, migrations, ethnicity and domestic politics-foreign policy interface. For several years Professor Ghosh was the Editor of India Quarterly, the flagship journal of the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. Professor Ghosh has a long list of publications. His books include Politics of Personal Law in South Asia (2007), Unwanted and Uprooted: A Political Study of Refugees, Migrants, Stateless and Displaced in South Asia (2004), Ethnicity versus Nationalism: The Devolution Discourse in Sri Lanka (New Delhi: SAGE, 2003), BJP and the Evolution of Hindu Nationalism (1999, 2000), Pluralism and Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics (New Delhi: SAGE, 2000, co-edited), Rivalry and Revolution in South and East Asia (1997, edited), Cooperation and Conflict in South Asia (1989, 1995) and Sino-Soviet Relations: US Perceptions and Policy Responses: 1849–1959 (1981). He has written many research articles in eminent professional journals, and also many newspaper articles. Helmut Reifeld is at present the Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. Formerly a research fellow with the German Historical Institute, London, and Bayreuth University, Germany, his co edited works include Pluralism and Equality and Women in Panchayati Raj.

Preface
Introduction - Helmut Reifeld
PART ONE:CIVIL SPACE AND VALUE PREMISES
The Place of ′Individual′ in Indian Thought and Polity - Chaturvedi Badrinath
The Cultural Capital of Europe - Andre Habisch
Values, Norms and Institutions as Devices for European Developmental Success
The State as Value - Satish Saberwal
India, Europe, China
More Equal but Still not Equal? - Zoya Hasan
State and Inter-group Equality in Contemporary India
Is Secularism a Value in Itself? - Rajeev Bhargava
PART TWO: CONCEPTS OF THE ′OTHER′ IN INDIA
Unity and Diversity in India - Ajay Mehra
Two Ends of a Continuum or a Converging Horizon
′Majorities′ and ′Minorities′ in Modern South Asian Islam - Mushirul Hasan
A Historian′s Perspective
Basic Conflicts of ′We′ and ′They′ between Religious Traditions, between Hindus, Muslims and Christians in India - Imtiaz Ahmad
Basic Conflicts of ′We′ and ′They′ between Social and Ethnic Groups - Ambrose Pinto
′We′ and ′They′ Syndrome: The South Asian Experience - Partha S Ghosh
PART THREE: FACING UNIVERSALISM
Reforms, Democracy and Justice - Ranabir Samaddar
Some Issues of State and the Market in South Asia
Is Globalistion a Threat to Regional and Local Identities? - Yogendra Singh
Gender Lines - Kumkum Sangari
Personal Laws, Uniform Laws, Conversion
Individual and Group Rights in Western Europe and India - Dietmar Rothermund
Summary of Discussions - Dietmar Rothermund
Index