FUNDAMENTALISM

RAM PUNIYANI FUNDAMENTALISM Threat to Secular Democracy This book is a compilation of essays and articles written an various points of time in response to the threat posed to secular democracy. It deals with the process of secularization, the base of Secular Principles, the process which essentially involves the end of landlordism and the end of hold of clergy on social and political affairs. The articles and essays in this are a periodic presponse to the ongoing threat to democracy posed by politics in the name of religion the rights of weaker sections of society. It has focus on the fundamentalist politics as spread by the organisation like RSS and Taliban TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Process of Secularization: Society and Secularization in India 2. Communalism: Pre Independence India 3. Kashmir Issue: Religious or Political 4. Communalism: Post Independence 5. Communalism or Affirmative Action 6. Social Common Sense 7. Communal Violence 8. Pluralism in India 9. Politics behind Terrorism 10. Fundamentalism In India: RSS a. Golden Gloss on Khakhi Knickers b. RSS: Political or Cultural c. RSS and Terrorism 11. Hindutva and Dalits 12. Yogi and Profane Laws 13. RSS and Gender Question 14. Adivasis: A Cultural Cooption 15. Song For A Nation 16. Another Ayodhya in the Making 17. Civilizations: Clash or Alliance