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Postmodernism and religious fundamentalism: a scientific rebuttal to Hindu science : an essay, a review and an interview / Meera Nanda

By:

Nanda, Meera

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Pondicherry : Navayana, 2003.Description: 81 p. ; 23 cm. PbkSubject(s):

DDC classification:

831.2 NAN

Summary: The promotion of an anti-Enlightenment and anti-modernist view of the world by the seemingly left-wing, postmodernist scholars with indigenist sympathies has ended up affirming the common sense of rightwing fundamentlalist movements. Hindutva, Meera Nanda demonstrates, speaks the same language as academic postmodernism popularized in India by the neo-Gandhian and postcolonial critics of modernity. The secularization of science the hard-won freedom of science from churches, brahmans and mullahs is under threat.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	Meenakshi Mukherjee Books	831.2 NAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K4419

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-53).

The promotion of an anti-Enlightenment and anti-modernist view of the world by the seemingly left-wing, postmodernist scholars with indigenist sympathies has ended up affirming the common sense of rightwing fundamentlalist movements. Hindutva, Meera Nanda demonstrates, speaks the same language as academic postmodernism popularized in India by the neo-Gandhian and postcolonial critics of modernity. The secularization of science the hard-won freedom of science from churches, brahmans and mullahs is under threat.

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