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Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India's electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly 'Western' concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of cognates, like secularism, secularisation and secularity in non-Western societies without assuming them simply as derivative, or colonial legacies or contrast cases of Western societies? While recognizing that the dominant language of political modernity of Western societies is not easily translatable in non-Western societies, The Secular Imaginary elaborates upon an intellectual history of secularity in modern India by focusing on the two most influential political leaders - M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. It is an intellectual history of both idea(s) and intellectuals, which sheds light on Indian narratives of secularity - the Gandhian sarva dharma samabhava, Nehruvian secularism, and unity in diversity. It revisits this dominant narrative of secularity of the twentieth century that influenced and shaped the imagination of the modern nation-state.

Secularism --- Religion and politics --- Gandhi, --- Nehru, Jawaharlal, --- Javāharalāla Neharū, --- Javāharlāl Nēru, --- Javāhir Lāl Nihrū, --- Jawāhar Lal Nihrū, --- Jawaharlal Nehru, --- Jawāhir-lal Nehru, --- Neharū, Javāharalāla, --- Nehroe, Jawaharlal, --- Neru, Dzavakharlal, --- Neru, Dzhavakharlal, --- Nēru, Javāharlāl, --- Nihrū, Javāhir Lāl, --- Nihrū, Jawāhar Lāl, --- نهرو. جواهر لعل --- نهرو، جواهرلال --- Aṇṇal Kānti, --- Gāndhi, Em. Ke., --- Gandhi, M. K. --- Gāndhī, Ma. Ka., --- Gāndhī, Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda, --- Gandhi, Mohandas, --- Gandhi, Mohandas K. --- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, --- Gāndhījī, --- Gandi, --- Gandi, M. K. --- Gāndī, Mahātamā, --- Gandi, Mahattŭma, --- Gandi, Mokhandas Karamchand, --- Gandī, Muhandās Kāramchānd, --- Ganji, Mahatoma, --- Ghāndi, --- Ghāndī, Mūhāndās Karamshānd, --- Gkanti, --- Kan-ti, --- Kandi, --- Kānti, --- Kānti, Mōkan̲tās Karamcant, --- Kāntiyaṭikaḷ, --- Mahātmā Gāndhījī, --- Mahātmājī, --- Makātmā Kānti, --- Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda Gāndhī, --- Mōkan̲tās Karamcant Kānti, --- גאנדי, מ.ק --- גאנדי, --- גנדהי, --- مهاتما گاندهى --- گاندهى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهنداس کارمچاند --- ‏گاندھى،‏ --- Gandhi, Mahatma,