Hilal Ahmed

Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India

Monuments, Memory, Contestation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the process of monumentalisation of Indo-Islamic historical places and their remaking as political sites in contemporary India situating these within the Muslim political discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032849836
• ISBN-10: 1032849835
• Artikelnr.: 72700539

Autorenporträt

Hilal Ahmed is Associate Professor, 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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface to the 1st edition. Preface to the
2nd 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
Appendices. Select Bibliography. Index.