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6 - Secularity and Hinduism’s Imaginaries in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2018

By
Shylashri Shankar
Edited by
Mirjam Künkler ,
John Madeley  and
Shylashri Shankar
Mirjam Künkler
Affiliation:
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
John Madeley
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Shylashri Shankar
Affiliation:
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
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A Secular Age beyond the West
Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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