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Professor Bose is the author of 'Secular States, Religious Politics', a pioneering comparative study of the two major attempts to build secular states in the non-Western world. He explains the origins, evolution, and latterly the decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in India and Turkey.

Sumantra Bose arguest that the anti-secular political transformations of the 21st century are the rise of a Sunni-Islamist definition of Turkish national identity to hegemonic power, and Hindu nationalism as India's pre-eminent political force. Both secular-state models adopted a similar operational doctrine of state intervention in and regulation of the religious sphere, rather than a Western-style separation of church and state. But, he argues, Turkish state-secularism took a culturally deracinated and harshly authoritarian form that led to its failure, whereas India's secular state – though flawed in practice – followed a culturally rooted and democratic path that makes secularism indispensable to India's future.