Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Hasan, Mushirul.

Publication

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

ix, 252 pages; 24 cm

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.

Alternative Title

Images of India's Muslims

Subject

• Since 1900
• 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
• Musulmans > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Islam > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Musulmans > Inde > Opinion publique
• Diversité culturelle
• Multiculturalisme > Inde
• 11.80 Islam: general
• Islam
• Islam and politics
• Multiculturalism
• Muslims
• Muslims > Political activity
• Muslims > Public opinion
• Politics and government
• Multicultural society
• 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
• India > History > 1947-
• India > Politics and government > 1947-
• Inde > Histoire > 1947-
• Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1947-
• India

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes glossary.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-244) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9780195695311
• 0195695313

LCCN

2008307855

OCLC

• ocn225417451
• SCSB-14327684

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library