TY - BOOK AU - Aiyar, Mani Shankar TI - Confessions of a secular fundamentalist SN - 0143062050 U1 - 211.6 PY - 2006/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Books N1 - CONTENTS Author's Note ix Prologue: A Conversation with Arun Shourie xi 1. Secularism: An Overview 1 2. The Ideological Dimension 17 3. The Historical Dimension 38 4. The Constitutional and Legal Dimensions 86 5. Secularism in a Time of Communal Activism 127 6. Secularism and the Indian Religious Minorities 178 7. The External Dimension 204 8. In Conclusion: Why I am a Secular Fundamentalist 243 Appendix: Secular Answers to Communal Questions-A Catechism for Communalists 254 Notes 272 References 279 Index 283 ER -