The decolonial vocabulary of postcolonial theory inadvertently empowers Hindu nationalism by legitimising reactionary, religious cultural traditionalism.

Secularism, of course, surfaces in relevance outside the reform of law as well, but until the 1980s, it was mostly wielded in this sphere.

In conversation with Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and a renowned scholar of political philosophy.

Communal violence is not a recent phenomenon in this part of the world.