InfoTrac Activities
Instructions:
Enter your answers into the boxes below. If you'd like a print-out of your responses, click on the
Submit
button at the bottom of the page, and you will be taken to a printer-friendly page.
If you have been instructed to submit your exercise online, enter both your and your instructor's name and e-mail address, then click the
Email
button at the bottom of the page. Your answers will be e-mailed immediately.
India and Secularism
India's embattled secularism. (Holy Wars).
Mukul Kesavan.
The Wilson Quarterly
Wntr 2003 v27 i1 p61(7)
1. What is a good definition of secularism?
2. Why can India be considered a patchwork state created by British colonialism?
3. How was religion subordinated to nationalism in pre-independence India? Why was this done?
4. Why is the Bharatiya Janata Party classified as a Hindu nationalist party?
5. How does the BJP threaten the secular nature of India?
Student Name:
*
Student Email:
*
Professor Name:
*
Professor Email:
*
*
required