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Subject(s)

• Conversion—Hinduism [Browse]
• Freedom of religion—India [Browse]
• Nationalism—Religious aspects—Hinduism [Browse]
• Religion and politics—India [Browse]
• Sovereignty—Religious aspects—Hinduism [Browse]

Series

• Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 60

Summary note

Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India's religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious communities. Extending these concepts to an analysis of historical, political and legal genealogies of conversion, the author demonstrates how a concern for sovereignty links past and present anti-conversion campaigns and laws.The book illustrates how sovereignty informs the making of secular

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 (Anti) conversion as exception: genealogies; 2 (Anti) conversion: transnational bio/necropolitical engagements; 3 Sovereignty and the Indian secular; 4 What's love got to do with it? Sovereignty and conversion; 5 Profaning religious freedom; Epilogue: conversion as profanation; Notes; References; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-30202-6
• 1-283-60558-9
• 9786613918031
• 1-136-30203-4
• 0-203-11706-9
• 9780203117064

OCLC

• 811506301
• 815378048
• 811135574

Doi

10.4324/9780203117064

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