The other in South Asian religion, literature and film: perspectives on otherism and otherness

Introduction : On Otherism and Othering / Diana Dimitrova -- The Religion of Coolitude / Rashi Rohatgi -- Religion and "Otherness" in a New World : The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space / Diana Dimitrova -- "Othering" through Language : The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India / Rahman Tariq -- The Idea of a Nation : H.R. Bacchan's Palimpsestian House of Wine / Anne Castaing -- The Politics of "Otherness" : The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) / Diana Dimitrova -- Imagining the Powerful "Other" : Representations of Razia Sultan / Urvi Mukhopadhyay -- Queer Bollywood : Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s / Thomas Waugh -- Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s) / Sunny Singh

This book introduces the term ""otherism"" and looks at the discourse of otherism and the issue of otherness in South Asian religion, literature and film. It examines cultural questions related to the human condition of being the ""other,"" of the process of ""othering"" and of the representation of ""otherness"" and its religious, cultural and ideological implications.The book applies the perspectives of ideological criticism, theories of hybridity, orientalism, nationalism, and gender and queer studies to gain new insights into the literature, film and culture of South Asia. It looks at the