Lives of Muslims in India: Politics, Exclusion and Violence

by Shaban,Abdul; Shaban,Abdul

• ISBN13: 9780415508513
• ISBN10: 0415508517
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-04-20
• Publisher: Routledge India

Summary

The solidifying of categories and identities along religious and ethnic lines since India "s independence has considerably minoritised " Muslims in the country. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims, highlighting how, amidst a politics of violence, confusing policy frameworks on caste and class lines, and institutionalised riot systems, the community has also suffered from the failure of indigenous leadership. At the same time, they have emerged as a mass " around which vote banks ", appeasement ", foreigners ", Pakistanis within the country ", etc. are imagined and created, further marginalising and preventing them from asserting their legitimate right to development and progress. The important issue of the exclusion of Muslim women and attempts to reform the Muslim Personal Law by some civil society groups is also discussed. Contributed by academics, activists and journalists, the articles thus discuss issues of integration, exclusion and violence, and attempt to understand categories like identity ", minority ", multiculturalism ", and nationalism " with regard to and in the context of Indian Muslims. The volume will be of great interest to those in sociology, politics, history, cultural studies, minority studies, Islamic studies, policy studies, etc.