Recovering Minority Pasts: New Writings on Muslims in South Asia

Muslim identity politics in colonial India has been a subject of rich scholarly debate. Existing studies have contributed towards building our understanding of South Asian Islam. However, these studies have privileged the grand master narrative that assumes the overarching uniform impact of political and religious movements. The scholarly emphasis has been on how the diversities of local identities and histories were submerged in the formation of a homogeneous Muslim religious community and the project of a Muslim nation state. Thus, categories like “Islamic Revivalism” (Metcalf 1982) and “Muslim Separatism” (Robinson 1974) have become landmarks to map diverse Muslim experiences of politics and religion in colonial India.

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