Title Moderate or militant : images of India's Muslims / Mushirul Hasan

Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) Contents Introduction -- Of Bitter Passions -- Let Colour Fill the Flowers, Let Breeze of Early Spring Blow -- Questioning Civilizational Fault Lines -- Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Pre-history of Communalism? -- Education and Faith: Exalting Orthodoxies -- Partition: A World Turned Upside Down -- The Choices and the Roads Taken -- Miles to Go, Promises to Keep Summary Though Islam and Muslims form an integral part of the rich history and culture of India, their voice in present times is a muted one. Academic discourse in the West, which is increasingly engaging with Islam, thus chooses to largely ignore their existence. Much of what is written about India's Muslims, by Indian as well as Western scholars, tends to highlight the reactionary and strident over the moderate and normal. In this book Mushirul Hasan articulates a vision of Islam or rather the many different kinds of Islam, instead of the frightening monolith of popular perception, living in harmony with other faiths, and of Indian Muslims, inheritors of the great Indian civilization, living in a plural society. Engaging with the debates surrounding the society, polity, and history of India's Muslims, and using historical and literary sources, as well as the writings of modern Muslim thinkers like Aziz Ahmad and Mohammad Mujeeb, Hasan traces the development of contemporary ideas about Muslims from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, through British rule and the partition, to the present day. For Hasan, a truly secular reading of Indian history reveals Indian Islam as one that exists in a pluralist milieu Notes Includes glossary Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-244) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Muslims -- India -- History -- 20th century Islam -- India -- History -- 20th century Muslims -- Political activity -- India. Muslims -- India -- Public opinion Islam and politics -- India -- 20th century Cultural pluralism. Multiculturalism -- India Cultural pluralism Islam Islam and politics Multiculturalism Muslims Muslims -- Political activity Muslims -- Public opinion Politics and government 11.80 Islam: general. Multicultural society. Muslims. Muslims -- India -- History -- 20th century Islam -- India -- History -- 20th century Muslims -- Political activity -- India Muslims -- India -- Public opinion Islam and politics -- India -- History -- 20th century Cultural pluralism Multiculturalism -- India Islam -- Indien. SUBJECT India -- History -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064930 India -- Politics and government -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064944 Subject India India. India -- History -- 1947- India -- Politics and government -- 1947- Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199081509 0199081506

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