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reading nussbaum’s The Clash Within. she’s a philosopher, not a specialist. since i’m a dilettante i’m not going to cast stones, but her lack of social science rigor can get annoying. e.g., she states that india has the third largest muslim population in the world. on the margins there might be quibbles with this depending on how the indian census undercounts or not. but later on the chapter she states that some people are of the opinion that india has the largest muslim population out of the blue. this is unlikely, though if the undercount is big enough it is possible that there are more muslims in india than indonesia. when you go into a highly charged topic like communalism in india you need to be really precise and on the up & up, and nussbaum seems to slip into verbal shell games as philosophers are want to do for a specific argument. she makes sociological generalizations without footnote so you can check up any quantitative data….
