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Living with Secularism - The Destiny of India's Muslims (Hardcover)
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Living with Secularism - The Destiny of India's Muslims (Hardcover)
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The success of Indian secularism lies in the ways in which its
minorities have lived and negotiated their existence with the State
and the broader society at large. Yet it remains painfully true
that over the past decade, the story of Indian Muslims has been
circumscribed by the broader Hindutva agenda. An assessment of the
future of Indian Muslims must necessarily be read within the
context of the rise militant Hindu nationalist politics and its
impact on the secular fabric of the country. Hindu-Muslim unity,
the defining moment of Indian secularism has come under renewed
threat. The present volume tries to map the tensions and
predicaments of Indian Muslims arising as a result of that threat.
The papers included here study the ways in which Hindu Right forces
such as the RSS and the Bajrang Dal view the Muslims and in a
certain sense construct them. Does the rise of Hindutva necessarily
force the Muslims towards alienation or is there a section, which
looks at the BJP differently? How does the stress on Indian
pluralism translate in terms of Muslims' relationship with the
State? What has been the response of the State to such demands? The
volume also brings into focus ways in which Muslims themselves make
their life meaningful; whether through investing in education or
even a change in terms of practising their own religion or the way
they have historically related to other political formations. It is
at the three interrelated levels of the state, politics and society
that the present volume charts out the issues of Muslims and the
multifarious ways in which they live and give meaning to Indian
secularism.
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