Secularism’s Names: Commitment to Confusion and the Pedagogy of the Name

This essay takes up social and political questions of naming that are often ignored in studies of inequality or exclusion. What if South Asian personal names ceased to reveal demographic ‘data’ about their bearers, scrambling any attempt at automatic categorization? The focus here is on naming and/o...

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Main Author: Jacob Copeman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2015-10-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4012

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