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Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77

Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Pratinav AnilPublish date:2023-07-01Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197694695ISBN-10:197694691UPC:9780197694695Book Category:History, Political Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Asia, Comparative Politics, IslamSize:8.49 x 5.90 x 1.57 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCWVQ613CC
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, deindustrialization, dispossession and disenfranchisement, as well as an unresponsive leadership.

Anil demonstrates how the Muslim elite encouraged depoliticization, 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197694695ISBN-10:197694691UPC:9780197694695Book Category:History, Political Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Asia, Comparative Politics, IslamSize:8.49 x 5.90 x 1.57 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCWVQ613CC
Pratinav Anil is an historian of postcolonial India, currently teaching at the University of Oxford, whose writings have appeared in The Spectator, The Indian Express and History Today. He is the co-author (with Christophe Jaffrelot) of India's First Dictatorship, and the author of Another India, both published by Hurst.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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