Book review: Sangit Kumar Ragi, The Puritan Is Political: Mapping Islamic Radicalism
| Published date | 01 March 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00195561231204602 |
| Author | Shambhavi Mani |
| Date | 01 March 2024 |
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they need to depend on the funds received from the governments, both the Central
and state.
In the eld of rural development, Part II, of the book covers major CSS such as
wage employment, self-employment, housing, infrastructure development, area
development, social security, basic services and schemes which promote indica-
tors of social development. This book attempts an understating of the rural devel-
opment schemes, especially the CSSs and attempts to be aware on the role of
Panchayati Raj functionaries at the grassroots level in promoting the CSSs.
Panchayati Raj and Rural Development both jointly play a signicant role to
improve the lives of the people, by the people and for the people.
This book is helpful to the students of Panchayati Raj, Political Science,
Panchayati Raj executives, functionaries, elected representatives and ofcials,
students and professionals of rural development management, rural development
functionaries, scholars of MPhil and PhD, development agents, social activists,
students of different competitive examinations and so on. All the important topics
are placed in sequence to cater to the interest of the readers.
Neela Bai R.
Department of Social Exclusion Studies
English and Foreign Language University
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
neelagopalm@gmail.com
Sangit Kumar Ragi, The Puritan Is Political: Mapping Islamic Radicalism. Vitasta
Publications, 2023, 441 pp., $29.99 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9789390961733.
DOI: 10.1177/00195561231204602
The unprecedented scales with which the idea of radical Islam is polarising and
manifesting itself in the world is quite blood-curdling. It is projecting itself as one
of the greatest impediments faced by world leaders while establishing a demo-
cratic setup. The historical evaluation of Islam and its expansion goes on to
suggest that from the beginning the followers of this religion resorted to brute
force for its expansion. The element of violence has its roots in interpretation of
pure or puritan Islam. A visible contradiction of phenomenon of Islamic zealotry,
however, is witnessed where the countries which are in numerical majority of
Islamic population are far more entrenched in the web of radicalisation than the
others. The end of political hegemony of Islam after a long reign with the disinte-
gration of the Caliphate Empire in 1922 evinced a strong force built on the grounds
of Islamic brotherhood. During the Cold War era, to fight Soviet forces in
Afghanistan, the USA led another campaign and used radicalisation of Islam to its
purpose. Notwithstanding their original agenda, these forces later turned on to
their own masters and since then have been causing distress in almost every nation
for Islamic propagation. These fundamentalists successfully established terror
nurseries of Islamic radical groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan and then sprang
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