Functioning as a passe-partout, Kalyani Devaki Menon’s Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India1 opens up critical pathways into the expanding literature on the ‘everyday’ experiences of Indian Muslims. Menon’s work, grounded in Anthropology, is…
In 2008, while cleaning my parents’ basement, I encountered a photograph I had never seen before. When I asked my mother about it, she told me the photograph was of “Nana Hazrat,” “your Nani’s Nana”…
Muslims in present day India constitute ‘the largest religious minority’ in the whole world. India is the second most-populous country, seventh largest country by area, and is considered the ‘world’s largest secular democracy’. As per…
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst’s Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad explores how revolts in 1857 and 1858 in India profoundly shaped the conceptualization of Muslims as a distinct minority community in…