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Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE Introduction: Ashoka’s Wheel

PART ONE: Three Models of Secular Constitutional Design

CHAPTER TWO Nations and Constitutions: Dimensions of Secular Configuration

Three Constitutional Models: A Preliminary Account

Conduct

Belief

Ritual

Conclusion

CHAPTER THREE Secularism in Context

The United States: Assimilative Secularism

Israel: Visionary Secularism

Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR India: The Ameliorative Aspiration

“The Good of the People”

“The State Shall Endeavor”

A Conversion of Convenience

Conclusion

PART TWO: Constitutional Perspectives on the Challenge to Secularism in India

CHAPTER FIVE Religion, Politics, and the Failure of Constitutional Machinery

Demolition, Dismissal, and Democracy

Federalism and Republicanism

The Brooding Omnipresence of Basic Structure

A Secular State: The Basics

Conclusion

CHAPTER SIX Corrupt Practices: Religious Speech and Democratic Deliberation

What Is Political Corruption?

Religion, Equality, and Constitutional Essentials

Corruption’s Conceptual Expansion

The Contemporary Challenge

Corruption: Process and Substance

Conclusion

CHAPTER SEVEN Adjudicating Secularism: Political Liberalism or Religious Revivalism?

Story I: Liberalism Ascendant

Story II: Liberalism Subservient

The Conflation of Hinduism and Hindutva

Hinduism as a Way of Life

Postscript for Story II

Story III: Jurisprudence

Problem-Solving

The Method of Sociology

Conclusion: Liberalism, Communalism, and Jurisprudence

CHAPTER EIGHT So You Want a (Constitutional) Revolution? Lessons from Abroad

Revolutions and Their Constitutions

Judicial Revolutionaries

Revolutionary Possibilities

Constitutional Harmony

Judicial Finality

Teachers to the Citizenry

Reverse Images

Conclusion

CHAPTER NINE Conclusion: Toward Secular Convergence

Reconsidering Smith

Reinventing the Wheel

Bibliography

Index