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Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti, eds. 2020. Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 240 pp. Rs. 795 (hardback). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures i is a new addition to his existing output of writings on the emerging field of study called "postcolonial utopianism." In 2012, Ashcroft published the basic theoretical ideas of this new field of study ("postcolonial utopianism") as the "Introduction" to I Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal. i There Ashcroft had posited that postcolonial literary writing has always been characterized by an irrepressible hope. Apart from the clear-cut discussion of utopianism in postcolonial literatures, Ashcroft also elaborates on the concept of utopia (and other terms related to it) in much detail. [Extracted from the article]