CONTENTS
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
CHAPTER THREE Secularism in Context
The United States: Assimilative Secularism
CHAPTER FOUR India: The Ameliorative Aspiration
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
The Brooding Omnipresence of Basic Structure
CHAPTER SIX Corrupt Practices: Religious Speech and Democratic Deliberation
Religion, Equality, and Constitutional Essentials
Corruption’s Conceptual Expansion
Corruption: Process and Substance
CHAPTER SEVEN Adjudicating Secularism: Political Liberalism or Religious Revivalism?
Story II: Liberalism Subservient
The Conflation of Hinduism and Hindutva
Conclusion: Liberalism, Communalism, and Jurisprudence
CHAPTER EIGHT So You Want a (Constitutional) Revolution? Lessons from Abroad
Revolutions and Their Constitutions