The Muslims of India - A Documentary Record

Edited by noted constitutional scholar and political commentator A. G. Noorani, The Muslims of India presents an extensive documentary record of Muslim political and social experience in India following Independence and Partition.

The volume emphasizes the minority community’s responses to the challenges it faced and the important internal debates that followed Partition. Its documents examine political mobilization, Hindu revivalism and Muslim responses, the Shah Bano case, the Babri Masjid dispute, Muslim personal law, the development of Urdu and the role of Aligarh Muslim University.

By bringing together important historical and political documents in a single volume, this work provides valuable primary-source material for scholars and students of modern Indian history, politics, religious communities and minority affairs.

Editor: A. G. Noorani

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Year: 2003

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 368

ISBN: 0-19-566158-3

Condition: Good

Contents

Introduction

Adjustment to the New Order

Mobilization for Redress of Grievances

Political Strategy for Grievance Redressal

Hindu Revivalism and Muslim Reaction

The Shah Bano Case

The Babri Masjid Question

New Trends in Muslim Politics

Urdu

Aligarh Muslim University