Product Description This book puts together the most important contemporary writings in the debate on secularism. It addresses urgent questions, including the relevance of secularism to non-Western societies, and the question of minority rights. Review `well worth the time both to read and reflect upon the issues raised, the critiques presented, and the suggestions of tentative resolutions offered, both as regards India herself and all nations, Western and other, where religious communities both contribute to the formation of state policy and divide nation-states into "us versus them" with predictably tragic results.' electronic newsletter e-Extreme About the Author Rajeev Bhargava is visiting Professor at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.