Legacy of a Divided Nation : India's Muslims since independence / Mushirul Hasan.

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Hasan, Mushirul

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c1997.Description: xv, 383 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780195641769
0195641760

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DDC classification:

954.030882971 21 HAS

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Contents:

1. Introduction 2. The myth of Muslim unity: colonial and national narratives 3. Making a separate nation 4. India partitioned: the other face of freedom 5. Secularism: the post-colonial predicament 6. Forging secular identities 7. Redefining boundaries: modernist interpretations and the new 'intellectual structures' 8. Empowering differences: political actions, sectarian violence and the retreat of secularism 9. Ayodhya and its consequences: reappraising minority identity 10. Appendix A. Distribution of Muslim population in India -- 11. Appendix B. The Divine Law 12. Appendix C. Resolutions of the All-India Jamiyat-Ulama-i Islam conference, Calcutta, 31 October 1945 13. Appendix D. 'What does secularism mean?' 14. Appendix E. 'Myths relating to minorities in India.

Summary: This important work analyses the current condition of India's polity and its relationship with Muslims. It also provides new information on India's Muslims before and after Independence. Professor Hasan looks at the origins of Muslim separatism under the British, at the making of partition, and at the meanings of these for a host of Muslim communities, families and individuals. His book examines the establishment of the 'Nehruvian consensus' -- with its secular vision for India's future -- in the 1940s and 1950s, and delineates secular identities as well as the Muslim organizations which ran counter to this process. Mushirul Hasan illustrates the role of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia as bearers of the 'beacon lights' of modern and secular understandings of the Muslim future in India. He then examines the break-up of the Nehruvian consensus from the 1960s through to the present, focussing in particular on the reasons for the growth of communal activity and the retreat of both Hindus and Muslims into communal, political camps. Finally the book syrveys the state of India's Muslims in the period after the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library History & Geography	Non-fiction	954.030882971 HAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		41716

1. Introduction 2. The myth of Muslim unity: colonial and national narratives 3. Making a separate nation 4. India partitioned: the other face of freedom 5. Secularism: the post-colonial predicament 6. Forging secular identities 7. Redefining boundaries: modernist interpretations and the new 'intellectual structures' 8. Empowering differences: political actions, sectarian violence and the retreat of secularism 9. Ayodhya and its consequences: reappraising minority identity 10. Appendix A. Distribution of Muslim population in India --
11. Appendix B. The Divine Law 12. Appendix C. Resolutions of the All-India Jamiyat-Ulama-i Islam conference, Calcutta, 31 October 1945 13. Appendix D. 'What does secularism mean?' 14. Appendix E. 'Myths relating to minorities in India.

This important work analyses the current condition of India's polity and its relationship with Muslims. It also provides new information on India's Muslims before and after Independence. Professor Hasan looks at the origins of Muslim separatism under the British, at the making of partition, and at the meanings of these for a host of Muslim communities, families and individuals. His book examines the establishment of the 'Nehruvian consensus' -- with its secular vision for India's future -- in the 1940s and 1950s, and delineates secular identities as well as the Muslim organizations which ran counter to this process. Mushirul Hasan illustrates the role of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia as bearers of the 'beacon lights' of modern and secular understandings of the Muslim future in India. He then examines the break-up of the Nehruvian consensus from the 1960s through to the present, focussing in particular on the reasons for the growth of communal activity and the retreat of both Hindus and Muslims into communal, political camps. Finally the book syrveys the state of India's Muslims in the period after the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-367) and index.

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