Languages of Secularity

Abstract

Kaviraj Sudipta’s Languages of Secularity outlines two main concerns: recent debates about secularity in Indian social science, and the colonial side of modernity. The former focuses on the reexamination of Indian thinking, and analyzing the historical changes in politics, religion, and Indian society. Sudipta argues that this change in thought was a significant moment in political theory, as it shows how India began to move away from Western social theory, and how the nature of social theory depends on the extension and elaboration of ideas combined with academic thinking from the historical world. Sudipta’s second part of the paper concerns the differences between early modernization theory and more recent theories. Casanova, Jose.