Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and Its Diaspora

Deana Heath is an Indian Council for Cultural Relations Research Fellow at

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Communalism and globalization: an opening gambit in a conversation between two literatures Chandana Mathur Part 2: Thinking historically 2. Beyond communalism: India, Pakistan and the challenges of globalization Ayesha Jalal 3. Salafi extremism in the Punjab and its transnational impact Tahir Kamran 4. Western Hindutva: Hindu nationalism in the United Kingdom and North America Christophe Jaffrelot and Ingrid Therwath 5. Empire, geo-politics and ethno-nationalisms: Ireland, India and Sri Lanka Jude Lal Fernando Part 3: Contemporary connections: problems and possibilities 6. Pragmatics of the Hindu right: globalization and thepolitics of women¿s organisations in India Tanika Sarkar 7. Cinema, nation and communalism in a globalizing Bangladesh Zakir Hossain Raju 8. Imranäs rape: debating Islam and law in contemporary India Barbara Metcalf 9. Communalism in Sri Lanka: locating the labour movement Janaka Biyanwila 10. Searching for the greatest Bengali: the BBC and shiftingidentity categories in South Asia Reece Jones 11. Religion, diaspora and globalization: the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Jamäat-i Islami in the United States Aminah Mohammad-Arif Part 4: Theoretical constructions 12. Islam, gender and the nation: the social life of Bangladeshi fatwas Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi 13. Kottu.org: community after communalism Pradeep Jeganathan 14. New directions: communalism, globalization and governmentality Deana Heath