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020			_a9781787388086 (hbk.)
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100	1		_aAnil, Pratinav, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAnother India : _bthe making of the world's largest Muslim minority, 1947–77 / _cPratinav Anil.
264		1	_aLondon: _bHurst & Company, _c2023.
300			_a349 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
505	0		_aIntro -- 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
520	8		_aAnother 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. What we have here is a rather different picture from received accounts of the ‘world’s largest democracy’. Challenging traditional histories of Nehru’s India, Pratinav Anil shows that minority rights were neglected right from independence. Despite its best intentions, the Congress regime that ruled for three decades was often illiberal, intolerant and undemocratic. Muslims had to contend with discrimination, disadvantage, deindustrialisation, dispossession and disenfranchisement, as well as an unresponsive leadership. Anil demonstrates how the Muslim elite encouraged depoliticisation, taking up seemingly noble but largely inconsequential causes with little bearing on the lives of ordinary members of the community. There was no room for mass protests or collective solidarity in this version of Muslim politics. Another India explores this elite betrayal, whose consequences are still felt by India’s 200 million Muslims today.
650		0	_aMuslims _zIndia _xSocial conditions _y20th century.
650		0	_aMuslims _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650			_aReligious discrimination _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _y1947-
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