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Muslim Secular - Parity and the Politics of India''s Partition

English · Hardback

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This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.

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  • Introduction

  • PART I INHERITING HINDUSTAN: ABUL KALAM AZAD AND THE CONGRESS MUSLIMS

  • 1: Secularism as Culture

  • 2: The Indian Intoxicant

  • PART II BEYOND THE REGION: INDIA IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SHEIKH ABDULLAH AND ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN

  • 3: A Three-Nation Theory

  • 4: An Ethical Country

  • Conclusion



About the author

An intellectual historian of modern India and Pakistan, Amar Sohal completed his DPhil in History at Merton College, Oxford. Now an Early-Career Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his research focuses on anti-colonial nationalism, religious politics, and the secular state. His writing has been published in leading academic journals: Modern Intellectual History, Global Intellectual History, and South Asia. He has also scripted and presented an hour-long documentary titled Azad and Jinnah: A Political Rivalry in Late Colonial India. He tweets @sohalamarsingh

Summary

This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.

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Amar Sohal's The Muslim Secular makes a powerful intervention in Indian political thought, especially in the body of literature known as Indian secularism.

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