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Being The Other: The Muslim In India
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The Clouds Are Moving Ecstatically From Kashi To Mathura And The Sky Will Remain Covered With Dense Clouds As Long As There Is Krishna In Braj. These Lines Were Composed By Mohsin Kakorvi, A Muslim Poet, To Celebrate Not Lord Krishnas Birthday But That Of The Prophet Muhammad. Awadh, The Authors Birthplace, Was Steeped In This Sort Of Syncretism In Which Islam And Hinduism Complemented And Celebrated Each Other And Urdu Culture Merged With Awadhi And Brajbhasha. Sadly, This Glorious Culture Has Been Systematically Destroyed Over The Past Century. In Many Ways, Awadh Stood For Everything That Independent India Could Have Become, A Land In Which People Of Different Faiths Co-Existed Peacefully And Created A Culture That Drew Upon The Best That Each Community Had To Offer. Instead, What We Have Today Is A Pale Shadow Of The Harmony That Once Existed. Everywhere There Are Incidents Of Sectarian Murder, Communal Propaganda And Divisive Politics. And There Seems To Be No Stopping The Forces That Are Destroying The Country. In This Remarkable Book, Which Is Partly A Memoir And Partly An Exploration Of The Various Deliberate And Inadvertent Acts That Have Contributed To The Othering Of The 180 Million Muslims In India, Saeed Naqvi Looks At How The Divisions Between Muslims And Hindus Began In The Modern Era. The British Were The First To Exploit These Divisions Between The Communities In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries. In The Run-Up To Independence, And Its Immediate Aftermath, Some Of Indias Greatest Leaders Including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, And Others Only Served To Drive The Communities Further Apart. Successive Governments...
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