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    This book evaluates the promise of human progress and secularism in grand political narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, comparing counter-narratives of South Asia within the context of a fast-changing twenty-first century. Embracing a broad range of sources and theoretical approaches that include philosophy, film and ideological discourse analysis, this book charts the optimism of a secular future and eradication of human miseries through to the Second World War and subsequent …Read more