Another India: the making of the world's largest Muslim minority, 1947-77
'Another India' tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Muslims--elite and subaltern, secular and clerical, activist and apolitical--it brings the experience of the country's Muslims under...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Hurst & Company
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Edition: | First published in the United Kingdom |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Muslim
/ Religious minority
/ Communalism
/ Minority group policy
/ Geschichte 1947-
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| Further subjects: | B
Muslims (India)
Social conditions 20th century
B Religious Discrimination (India) History 20th century B Asian History B Asiatische Geschichte B Islamic Studies B India Religion B Muslims (India) History 20th century B Islamic Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE B India History 1947- B Islam: Leben und Praxis B Asia / Generals / HISTORY B India |
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| Summary: | 'Another India' tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Muslims--elite and subaltern, secular and clerical, activist and apolitical--it brings the experience of the country's Muslims under a single focus; and, by throwing light on the Indian Muslim condition during the first thirty years of independence, reflects on the true character of democratic India. What we have here is a rather different picture from received accounts of the 'world's largest democracy'. Challenging traditional histories of Nehru's India, Pratinav Anil shows that minority rights were neglected right from independence. Despite its best intentions, the Congress regime that ruled for three decades was often illiberal, intolerant and undemocratic. Muslims had to contend with discrimination, disadvantage, deindustrialisation, dispossession and disenfranchisement, as well as an unresponsive leadership. Anil demonstrates how the Muslim elite encouraged depoliticisation, taking up seemingly noble but largely inconsequential causes with little bearing on the lives of ordinary members of the community. There was no room for mass protests or collective solidarity in this version of Muslim politics. Another India explores this elite betrayal, whose consequences are still felt by India's 200 million Muslims today |
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| ISBN: | 1787388085 |