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CSSS Team: Neha Dabhade, Irfan Engineer, Suraj Nair, Siddhi Pendke[1] (Secular Perspective February 1-15, 2019) The year 2018 saw 84 incidents of mob lynching. Mob lynching defined in section I…

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Academic Programs

A History of Indo-Afghan Relations by Prof. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Centre for Study of Society and Secularism Cordially invites you to the talk on A History of Indo-Afghan Relations By Prof. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi This talk will examine the long-term…

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Secular Perspective

Communal Violence 2018: Locating the Role of State and Changing Nature of Violence

CSSS Team: Neha Dabhade, Irfan Engineer, Suraj Nair, Siddhi Pendke[1] (Secular Perspective January 1-15, 2019) As per newspaper reports, the number of communal incidents all over India in 2018 has…

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Secular Perspective

Understanding Interfaith Dialogue: A few Critical Questions

Recently the issue of constructing temple of Lord Ram on the disputed site where the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya once stood and was demolished in 1992 is hotly debated. In…

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Fact Finding Reports

Aurangabad Communal Violence Fact Finding Report – 2018

A note by Irfan Engineer Communalism and Development Communal politics has been viewed from different perspectives. The left primarily regards religion as opium of people, instilling false consciousness, giving them…

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Secular Perspective

Babri Masjid: What should Muslims do?

A section of Hindu supremacist organizations are once again mobilizing to demand the construction of Ramjanmabhoomi temple (RJT) in Ayodhya on the spot where Babri Masjid once stood and was…

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Secular Perspective

Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism – II

In the previous issue of Secular Perspective (Vol. XXI No. 21, Nov. 1-15, 2018), we briefly outlined the tension between rights of denominations or any sections thereof under Art. 26 of the…

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11th Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture

Secularism: its meaning and the need for it” by Prof. Irfan Habib “The RSS didn’t participate in the Indian freedom struggle and didn’t contribute in fighting for independence from the…

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Secular Perspective

State of the Stateless: the Tale of NRC in Assam

This ache is the prospect facing and lived by 40 lakh odd residents of Assam today. 40 lakhs of the residents in Assam do not find their names on the…

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Fact Finding Reports

Harsul Fact Finding Report

Harsul is a town 50 kilometers away from Nashik in Maharashtra. It is also near Trimbakeshwar where the Kumbh Mela was organized this year. The town has a majority of…

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Mob Lynching: Changing Patterns of Communal Violence in India, Part II

A History of Indo-Afghan Relations by Prof. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Communal Violence 2018: Locating the Role of State and Changing Nature of Violence

Understanding Interfaith Dialogue: A few Critical Questions

Aurangabad Communal Violence Fact Finding Report – 2018

Babri Masjid: What should Muslims do?

Indian Constitutional Courts and Secularism – II

11th Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lecture

State of the Stateless: the Tale of NRC in Assam

Harsul Fact Finding Report

ISLAM – VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE

Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Best Published Paper Award

Indian Journal of Secularism (IJS)

Report of the Book Discussion and Lecture – “Babri Masjid, 25 Years On…”

Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Award

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