Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India:

Making Place for Muslims looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India.Places do not simply exist. They are made and remade by the acts of individuals and communities at particular historical momen...

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Main Author: Menon, Kalyani Devaki 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2022]
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:Making Place for Muslims looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India.Places do not simply exist. They are made and remade by the acts of individuals and communities at particular historical moments. In India today, the place for Muslims is shrinking as the revanchist Hindu Right increasingly realizes its vision of a Hindu nation. Religion enables Muslims to re-envision India as a different kind of place, one to which they unquestionably belong. Analyzing the religious narratives, practices, and constructions of religious subjectivity of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi, Kalyani Menon reveals the ways in which Muslims variously contest the insular and singular understandings of nation that dominate the sociopolitical landscape of the country and make place for themselves. Menon shows how religion is concerned with the divine and transcendental and with the anxieties and aspirations of people living amidst violence, exclusion, and differential citizenship. Ultimately, Making Place for Muslims allows us to understand religious acts, narratives, and constructions of self and belonging as material forces, as forms of the political that can make room for individuals, communities, and alternative imaginings, in a world besieged by increasingly xenophobic understandings of nation and place
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781501760594
DOI:10.1515/9781501760594

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