Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Community Apart -- Part I 'Nationalists' -- 1. Identity Politics -- 2. Culture Wars -- 3. Eminent Nehruvians -- Part II 'Communalists' -- 4. Loyal Opposition -- 5. Pressure Politics -- 6. Almost Liberal -- Part III Notables -- 7. Class Acts -- Conclusion: An Ashraf Betrayal? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary
'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