Religion Community and Development Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India 1st Edition by Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder Jodhka ISBN 1136704558 9781136704550

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ISBN 10:    1136704558
ISBN 13: 978-1136704550
Author:       Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder S. Jodhka

By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular framework privileged the individual over the community and was more inclined to use the category of class rather than the identity of religion, the Sachar Committee differentiated citizens on the basis of their religious identity. Its conclusions reinforced the necessity of approaching issues of development through the optic of religious community.

This volume focuses on this shift in public policy. The articles in this collection examine the nature and implications of this new approach to the Indian social reality. Taking a close look at the findings of the Sachar Committee Report (SCR) they highlight the challenges posed by inter-community comparisons. At another level the articles supplement the debate initiated by the SCR by constructing a profile of religious communities in India so as to factor in their concerns of development into the present discourse and to nuance and modify the simple indicators to which development is often reduced. As most religious communities are themselves engaged in development-related activities the volume also examines some of these initiatives in order to see what development connotes to the members themselves and what receives attention by the community.

Students of social sciences and development studies as well as those dealing with issues of marginalization will find this collection an invaluable resource for understanding contemporary India and for undertaking further theoretical and empirical research.

Religion Community and Development Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India 1st  Table of contents:

1. Religion, Community, and Development

• Re-cognition of Religion
• Religion, State, and the Constitutional Framework
• New Framework of Analysis in a Post-Secular World
• Analysing the Sachar Committee Report
• References

2. Political Communalisation of Religions and the Crisis of Secularism

• Democracy’s Secularisation Process
• Collapse of the Party System
• Communalisation of the Political Discourse
• The Counter-Discourse
• The New Policy Discourse
• Summary and Conclusion
• Reference

3. The Sachar Committee Report and Multiculturalism in India: Questions of Group Equality and the Public Sphere

• The Public Sphere
• Three Moments of the Public Sphere
• Groups in the Public Sphere
• Equality
• Multiculturalism and Egalitarianism
• Conclusion
• Reference

4. Hindutva’s Discourse on Development

• Hinduism and Economy
• Hindutva Economics
• Hindutva Economics: Evolution and Issues
• Integral Humanism: ‘A Third Way’?
• Gandhian Socialism and Social Engineering
• Hindutva’s Swadeshi Agenda
• Swadeshi Economics and the BJP
• From Swadeshi to Globalisation: BJP’s Changing Trajectory
• BJP’s Development Strategy under the RSS Scanner
• Hindutva Developmental Discourse: A Critique
• Conclusion
• References

5. Seva, Sangathanas, and Gurus: Service and the Making of the Hindu Nation

• Vivekananda, Seva and the Making of a Majority
• The Contemporary Hindutva Movement
• Majoritarianism in the Post-Independence State
• Seva in PPS
• Seva in SVM14
• Conclusion
• References

6. Development as Liberation: An Indian Christian Perspective

• Contextualising Development
• Two Discourses, Three Contexts
• The Ethics of Charity and Justice
• The Liberationist Response
• Latin American Churches
• Liberation Theology in Asia
• A Paradigm Shift
• Development Approaches
• The Indian Scenario
• Development as Liberation
• A Transforming Praxis
• References

7. Indian Christians: Trajectories of Development

• History
• Demographic Characteristics
• Christian Presence in Social Work and the Development Sector
• Caste Inequalities and Christianity
• Demographic and Developmental Profile
• Dalit Struggles
• Church and the State
• References

8. Sikhs Today: Development, Disparity, and Differences

• The Dynamics of Sikh Demography
• Occupations and Economies
• Poverty and Inequality
• Caste and Gender
• Sikhism and the Caste Question
• Caste and Contemporary Sikhism
• The Gender Question
• Conclusion
• References

9. The Contemporary Muslim Situation in India: A Long-Term View

• References

10. Between Identity and Equity: An Agenda for Affirmative Action for Muslims

• Identifying Muslim OBCs: Who Are They?
• OBCs in the Muslim Social Structure
• Modes of Intervention: Three Models of Protective Discrimination for Muslims
• Reservation for all Muslims: Kerala and Karnataka
• Invoking Caste: Tamil Nadu
• Muslim OBCs as Most Backward Classes: Bihar
• Analysing Intervention
• Postscript
• References

11. Struggle for the Margin or from the Margin

• References

12. Literacy, Education, and Gender Gap Among Socio-Religious Communities

• Religious Communities and Human Development
• Important Questions
• Examining Trends
• Educated Youth; Progressing Women
• Literacy and Education by Socio-religious Community
• Some Inferences
• The Importance of Being Educated
• Barriers to Female Education
• Changes in Parental Attitudes
• Demographic Transition and Gender Effects of Catch-up in Education
• Conclusion
• References

13. Cultural Rights of Minorities During Constitution-Making: A Re-reading

• Cultural Rights in the Constituent Assembly: A Case of Retrenchment?
• Cultural Rights and the Nationalist Vocabulary
• Conclusion
• References

14. The Goan Muslim: Presence Through Invisibility

• Visibility of Minorities and Minority Rights
• Muslim Identity and the Portuguese Reign
• UCC in the Indian Constitution
• Premises of the UCC: Separation of Religion and Law
• Goan Muslims and the UCC
• Demand for Muslim Personal Law in Goa
• Goan Muslims Today

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