Muslims in India Since 1947

Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation-state and to deal with issues such as democracy and secularism. It examines how a common predicament characterised by a sense of siege and the perception of being an oppressed minority is producing new expressions of Islam some of which seek to relate to non-Muslims in terms of confrontation and others which call for dialogue reconciliation and inter-faith harmony.