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Book SynopsisMaking Place for Muslims in Contemporary India looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India.
Places do not simply exist. They are made and remade by the acts of individuals and communities at particular historical moments. In India today, the place for Muslims is shrinking as the revanchist Hindu Right increasingly realizes its vision of a Hindu nation. Religion enables Muslims to re-envision India as a different kind of place, one to which they unquestionably belong. Analyzing the religious narratives, practices, and constructions of religious subjectivity of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi, Kalyani Devaki Menon reveals the ways in which Muslims variously contest the insular and singular understandings of nation that dominate the sociopolitical landscape of the country and make place for themselves. Menon shows how religion is concerned not just
Trade Review
This volume by Menon is a timely exploration of the dynamics of place-creation in modern India.
* Choice *
Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India is a valuable document that seriously takes issue with the lives of the people in question.
* International Journal of Asian Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part 1: Landscapes of Inequality
1. A Place for Muslims
2. Gender and Precarity
Part 2: Making Place
3. Perfecting the Self
4. Living with Difference
5. Life after Death
Conclusion
