Muslims in India

The Decline of Muslim Legislative Representation and its Consequences

"Data tells us that there is a case of serious under-representation of Muslims in India's legislature. Unless political parties are willing to acknowledge that a significant marker of…
▶02-Sep-2024
Mirza Asmer Beg

Region, Federation, Representation: Muslim Politics in India

Communities with idioms of politics other than the hegemonic heartland’s ‘Hindu-Muslim’, have been hospitable grounds for coalition-building, accommodation, and the shaping of distinctive and robust…
▶07-Aug-2024
Shefali Jha

An X-Ray of India’s Compassion

The politics of precarity and heightened socio-economic inequality erodes our compassion. The politics of prejudice and the treatment of minorities corrodes it.
▶30-Jan-2024
Rajendran Narayanan

Meo Yasin Khan: A Secularist, a Pluralist and a Peace Broker

The Meos of Mewat who suffered so much in the recent violence in Nuh, Haryana, have a history of seeking to live in peace. A writer discovers her grandfather from Mewat who fought for his community…
▶01-Nov-2023
Anisa Rahim

The Fires of Nuh

The recent communal violence in Nuh and the government's punitive measures have further dispossessed its Muslim residents, already victims of cow vigilantes and of poverty.
▶14-Aug-2023
Harsh Mander

Muslim Women Counterpublics: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will

Muslim women respond to political trauma by exercising their citizenship and care work beyond the family. Their activism is not driven by patriarchal indoctrination, but by a belief that one cannot…
▶27-Jan-2023
Ghazala Jamil

Wearing the Hijab, Normalising Difference

We cannot negate determined acts of Indian Muslim women to wear the hijab as mere social indoctrination. At a time when being a Muslim is a significant threat on its own, wearing the hijab and owning…
▶05-Dec-2022
Nafis Haider, Nayab Gauhar

The RSS' Plans to Resolve the Muslim Question

The Sangh's most recent outreach to Muslims is part of a history of plans for the “Indianisation” of Muslims by making them more Hindu. The goal of such assimilation is to negate any idea of a…
▶18-Oct-2022
Sanya Dhingra

The Shattering of the Muslim Hope in India

A young Muslim reflects on the collapse of constitutional promises and on the everyday fears and dilemmas faced by the minorities.
▶02-Mar-2022
Salik Ahmad