Identity and Religion: Foundations of Anti-Islamism in India
'A sensitive and intelligent account of the Indian nationalist thought and the difficulties it faced in doing justice to Indiàs Islamic inheritance' - Lord Parekh Fellow of the British Academy\ 'A thoughtful, well-researched and original analysis of the nationalist conceptualisation of the Muslim presence in India' - Professor Noel O'Sullivan , University of Hull\ Exploring the reasons behind the difficult relationship between Hindus and Muslims, the author of this volume links the unease to...
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Muslims did rule India for a long, admits Misra (politics, Queen's U., Belfast), but then so did the British, and the British do not seem to attract the same degree of resentment among many Hindus that Muslims do. At the same time, Islam as a religion seems not so different from Christianity or Judaism, but it is considered incompatible with Hinduism as they are not. He tries to resolve the problems by tracing thought about Hindu nationalism over the past century. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Vivekananda's Hindu regeneration project252Gandhi and political Hinduism643Nehru - the sceptical secularist1104Savarkar's discourse on radical ethno-nationalism1485The legacy of British historiography189Conclusion : the manifest destiny230
