Hinduism and Secularism

JOHN J.CARROLL Chancellor Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth MATTHEW A. COOK Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, Columbia University KOENRAAD ELST Author STEVEN A. HOFFMANN Professor of Political Science, Skidmore College SUBHASH C.KASHYAP Political Scientist and expert in constitutional law and parliamentary affairs VASUDHA NARAYANAN Professor of Comparative Religion, University of Florida ARVIND SHARMA Birks Professor of Comparative Religion, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada SHRINIVAS TILAK Lecturer DHIRNDRA K.VAJPEYI Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Fall, Iowa THEODORE P.WRIGHT JR. Professor Emeritus of Political Science, State University of New York, Albany

In this book nine scholars (Theodore P.Wright Jr., John J.Carroll, Matthew A.Cook, Dhirendra K.Vajpeyi, Subhas C.Kashyar, Steven A.Hoffmann, Srinivas Tilak, Koenraad Elst and Vasudha Narayanan) explore the myriad significances of this event for the Hindu and Muslim communities, and for the relations between them, in India.The demolition of the Babri Mosque at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 is an event as significant as it was unexpected. In this book nine scholars (Theodore P.Wright Jr., John J.Carroll, Matthew A.Cook, Dhirendra K.Vajpeyi, Subhas C.Kashyar, Steven A.Hoffmann, Srinivas Tilak, Koenraad Elst and Vasudha Narayanan) explore the myriad significances of this event for the Hindu and Muslim communities, and for the relations between them, in India.