In beginning her book by repeatedly invoking the image of Gandhi’s prayer meetings as a counter to the violence of the Partition, the author is emphasizing a conception of secularism that many others have noted as specific to South Asia. At these prayer meetings, near the Hydari Manzil in Beliaghata in Calcutta,
Secularism in South Asia: A Historical Analysis
Shefali Jha
HURT SENTIMENTS: SECULARISM AND BELONGING IN SOUTH ASIA by By Neeti Nair Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2023, 333 pp., USD 45.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12