Based on presentations at a conference at the University of Chicago Law School in November 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Politics of History / Amartya Sen -- Pluralism on Trial in Late Nineteenth-Century India / Mushirul Hasan -- Nehru, Religion, and the Humanities / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami -- Legitimating Majoritarian Chauvinism : The Indian Media and the Hindutva Campaign / Malini Parthasarathy -- Clarity Begins at Home / Antara Dev Sen -- From a Compartmental Society to Growing Violence and Corruption : Surveying in the 1990s through Advertisements / Arvind Rajagopal -- The Long March from Ayodhya : Democracy and Violence in India / Amrita Basu -- Political Competition and Communal Violence in India / Steven Wilkinson -- Tokenism or Empowerment? : Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged Communities / Zoya Hasan -- Neoliberalism and the Food Crisis / Prabhat Patnaik -- The Dilemma of a Liberal Hindu / Gurcharan Das -- The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy : Writing at the Time of Siege / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- The Baby and the Bathwater : Secularism in the Work of a Conservative Writer / Pratik Kanjilal -- The BJP's Intellectual Agenda : Textbooks and Imagined History / Mushirul Hasan and Jamia Millia Islamia -- 'Shed No More Blood' : Women's Peace Work in India / Ritu Menon -- Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics / Tanika Sarkar -- Fantasies of Purity and Domination : Rape and Torture in the Gujarat Riots / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Speaking About, For, To, Against, and With Hindus : Scholars and Practitioners in the Diasporic Post-Colonial Moment / Paul Courtright -- It Can Happen Here : The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the American Academy / Wendy Doniger -- Partisan Dreams, Fractured Homeland : Gujarati Diaspora Politics in America / Mona G. Mehta -- The Hindu Diaspora in the United States / Ved Nanda.