This volume comprises essays that discuss trends in secularism in social, political, legal, and administrative organs including, academic institutions, and media.

T.N. Srinivasan is Samuel C. Park, Jr Professor of Economics, Yale University, USA

• List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction (T.N. Srinivasan); Part I: 2. Secularism in India: Why is it Imperilled? (Jagdish Bhagwati); 3. The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism (Rajeev Bhargava); Comments (Faisal Devji); 4. An Inner Violence: Why Communalism in India is about Caste (Dilip M. Menon); 5. Is Secularism Alien to Indian Civilization? (Romila Thapar); Comments (Shyam Sunder); 6. The Future of Secularism and the Promise of Diversity in India: A Historical Perspective (Lamin Sanneh); 7. The Shifting Qiblah: Islamization under General Zia-ul-Haq and Secularism under General Pervez Musharraf-The Pakistani Experience (F.S. Aijazuddin); Comments (Mahmood Monshipouri);


• Part II: 8. Secularism, 'Revivalism', Mimicry (Goenawan Mohamad); Comments (Ben Kiernan); 9. The Clash of Religio-Political Thought: The Contest between Radical-Conservative Islam and Progressive-Liberal Islam in Post-Soeharto Indonesia (M. Syafi's Anwar); Part III: 10. Islam and Secularism-Plato and Khomeini: Questions Concerning the Open Society and its Enemies (Nur Yalman); Comments (Abbas Amanat); 11. When Secularism Opposes Nationalism: The Case of the Former Yugoslavia (Amila Buturovic); Comments (Michael Holquist); Notes on Contributors; Index.