Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India - Monuments, Memory, Contestation

List of contents

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Monumentalisation in Colonial India: Discovery of 'Indian Muslim Architectural Heritage'. 3. Monumentalisation in Postcolonial India: Conservation, Law and Muslim Politics. 4. Jama Masjid and the Political Memory of a Royal Muslim Past. 5. Babri Masjid and the Muslim Politics of Right to Heritage. 6. Conclusion. Afterword. Appendices. Select Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

About the author

Hilal Ahmed is Associate Professor at CSDS, India. He works on political Islam, Indian democracy and politics of symbols in South Asia. He is the author of A Brief History of the Present: Muslims in New India (2024), Allah Naam ki Siyasat (2023), Siyasi Muslims: A Story of Political Islams in India (2019), Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in Contemporary India (With Peter R deSouza, and Sanjeer Alam, 2019) and Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation (2014). He has also edited Companion to Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence (with Peter R deSouza, and Sanjeer Alam, 2021), Rethinking Muslim Personal Law: Issues, Debates and Reforms (with R. K. Mishra and K. N. Jehangir, 2022) and Sudipta Kaviraj: A Reader (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Hilal Ahmed, Ahmed Hilal
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032849836
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3284983-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General