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This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through
the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which
India's Muslims should cherish and of the national priorities they
should promote. It provides the reference-point for understanding
India's Partition and its legacy.
This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through
the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which
India's Muslims should cherish and of the national priorities they
should promote. It provides the reference-point for understanding
India's Partition and its legacy.
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.
This book unfolds the recent history of over one hundred million
Muslims living in India, details their fears and anxieties,
delineates their main currents of thought and examines their
responses to the socio-economic processes affecting the country as
a whole. Legacy of a Divided Nation begins by describing the
specific features of Indian Islam, the reconstruction of a
specifically Muslim identity by the British and its legitimisation
by the Indian nationalist movement, all of which are crucial in
understanding the roots of India's Partition. Issues relating to
the identity, integration and 'minority appeasement' of Indian
Muslims are analysed within the wider context of Hindu-Muslim
relations in the colonial period and in the secular trajectory
plotted by lndia since l947. The effect of economic, legal and
social change on the Muslim population also features strongly in
the work, as do its patterns of political and religious allegiance
and responses to the wave of anti-Muslim sentiment unleashed by
India's Hindu nationalists, notably the BJP.
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