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Claiming Citizenship and Nation: Muslim Politics and State Building in North India, 1947-1986

Claiming Citizenship and Nation: Muslim Politics and State Building in North India, 1947-1986

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Asian American StudiesGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0367335565
ISBN13: 9780367335564
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Jul 16 2021
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book provides insight into the changing nature of Muslim politics and the ideas of citizenship in independent India. It studies the electoral mobilization of minority groups across North India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh where Muslims have been demographically dominant in various constituencies. The volume discusses themes such as the making and unmaking of the 'Congress heartland' and the threat of revival of 'Muslim communalism', alongside issues of representation, property, language politics, rehabilitation and citizenship, politics of Waqf, personal law and Hindu counter-mobilization. The author utilizes previously unused government and institutional files, private archives, interviews and oral resources to address questions central to Indian politics and society.

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