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Exclusion of Muslims in India Book Review

Muslim World Book Review, 2023

The book under review is an outcome of understanding the social exclusion, ethnoreligious discrimination, and current political system and culture in India. It dwells on the exclusion and discrimination of Muslims in the sphere of power, opportunities, and equality.

Indian Muslims between Exclusion and Political Populism

Indian Muslims, second largest Muslim community after that of Indonesia, are part of India's global engagement. Their aspirations to play an assertive role in their future are not being welcomed sufficiently by their socio-religious leadership and the state institutions. Ultra nationalist groups want to keep them a hostage of a troubled legacy of partition and justify their development deficit. Their engagement with the Indian state, society and politics is defined by their aspirations and contestations.

Socio-Political Status of Muslims in India: Post Partition

Ever since India got independence, the Muslims who opted to make India as their homeland have to witness numerous problems in terms of their economy, education, politics and culture. Rather their miseries and deprivations even farther multiplied as compared to colonial period of sway. As Gopal Singh committee Report 1983, the Sachar Report 2006 and lastly, the Ranganath Report 2007 manifest the other side of the story against the Indian government's claim that the Muslims are progressing and prospering alike other communities. Indian governments have constituted several commissions to probe into Muslims' plight, but have showed reluctance to implement the findings or recommendations of the said committees on the one hand while the Hindu extremists always blame the Indian government's policy of "Muslims' appeasement" on the other. Since independence the Muslims have been made sandwich between the two variations... the duplicity of Indian governments and the adverse attitude of the Hindu fundamentalists. However, it is the need of the hour to take certain affirmative measures to curtail the Muslims' deprivations in the areas of education, economics and politics.

Social Exclusion and the Empowerment of Muslims: A study of Uttar Pradesh

2017

Social exclusion broadly refers to lack of participation in social life. It is a powerful form of discriminatory practice. In course of human development, exclusion has taken the form of segregating a group of people from the social, political, economic, cultural, educational domains of societal life. Giddens defines social exclusion as “it is not about gradations of inequality, but about mechanism that act to detach groups of people from the social mainstream”. Muslim in India remains far below the national average in almost all aspect of life. Sacchar committee estimates that the situation of Muslims in India is that of a deprived community which is above that of SCs and STs but below that of Hindu general, Hindu OBCs and other socio-religious category in almost all indicators of development. The due representation of Muslims in parliament, state legislature and Panchayati raj institution is crucial for the country because this is the only way in which this excluded community can ...

Indian Muslims as Political Orphans by Harsh Mander

This piece, a very timely lament and agony on the pathetic political status of Indian Muslims, the second largest religious community in the country from one of the most vocal conscience keepers of democratic-secular Indian polity, Harsh Mander appeared in The Indian Express, Delhi (March 17, 2018) titled SONIA, SADLY. Harsh describes in detail how Congress led by Sonia (and now by Rahul Gandhi) despite calling for fighting the RSS and its Hindutva project found it convenient to abandon Muslims politically like RSS/BJP and many other political outfits. If RSS declared Muslims as INTERNAL THREAT NUMBER ONE, Congress too felt that Muslims were a liability and should not be seen as pro-Muslim. So Congress too falls prey to the Hindutva bogey of Muslim appeasement despite the fact that most of the Muslims in India (despite hundreds of years of so called 'Muslim rule' and 7 decades of democratic-secular rule) continue to be stagnated at the lowest level so far as wealth, jobs, businesses and other social indexes are concerned. This frightful scenario presents a great challenge to the Indian polity. Muslims of India must be congratulated that despite continuous denigration and abandonment by mainstream politics the former have not lost hope in democratic-secular polity of the country. This hard hitting piece of writing by Harsh Mander is being produced with thanks to The Indian Express. It is an exclusive work of Harsh Mander. In this post my name appears due to formatting limitation of academia. edu

Social Exclusion of Muslims in India and Britain

Journal of Social Inclusion Studies

The main objective of this article is to study the complexities and nuances of exclusion of Muslims, a dominant minority group in India and Britain. It is an exploration of how Muslims, a religious minority in both India and Britain, are facing exclusion in different spheres of life, namely socio-economic and physical spaces. Moreover, it also explores the process of ‘othering’ which further excludes Muslims. It aims to explore how exclusion is directly associated with religion in face of a stigmatised religious identity. Muslims in India and Britain are not one monolith community. However, their experience of exclusion in different spheres of society offers some similarities. It offers an account of the fact that Muslims stand on the periphery in social and secular spheres of life and how this is closely related to their identity.

Ahmad, Irfan. 2022. "Q&A: Understanding India’s crackdown on Muslim groups." Al-Jazeera. 19 October

India’s government late last month banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) and affiliated organisations for five years, accusing the groups campaigning for Muslim rights of involvement in “terrorism”. Authorities also arrested dozens of members of the nine outlawed organisations after conducting raids across the country. Al Jazeera spoke to Irfan Ahmad, professor of sociology and anthropology at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul and an expert on Indian politics and Islamist parties in India. The conversation is about the whys and hows of the ban, imposed on the charges of terrorism but Ahmad argues how the charges are flimsy. Ahmad also discusses the terror unleashed by the government against Muslims and others -- the terror which remains undiscussed in the public.

A New Book on Muslims in India's Politics, 1947-1977: A Review

Rediff.com, 2023

A New Book on Muslims in India’s Politics, 1947-1977, wherein Pratinav Anil is able to foresee some agency and assertion on the part of India's Muslims. His hope emanates from the citizenship rights movement of Muslims in 2019-2020. On the Muslim question in the Indian Republic, Anil is harshly critical against Nehruvian policies and programmes. He characterises this era of Nehru-Congress hegemony as Islamophobic. One of the targets of his polemics is Mushirul Hasan's 1997 book, Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims since Independence, which, according to Anil, is 'an inventory of elite political maneuverings in which Muslims are little more than spectators'. He puts other scholars such as Rafiq Zakaria, Moin Shakir and Omar Khalidi, in almost the same league. In his own words, Anil's 'primary aim is to recover Muslim agency'. Admittedly, he is 'repurposing the minority question to reflect on the majoritarian character of Indian democracy'.