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Indias military, paramilitary and the police constitute one of the largest security forces around the globe. Who constitutes these forces? What is the ethnic and religious background of these troops? Has their composition of these forces mirror the diversity of Indian Society? Has their composition undergone any change since Independence? Independent India has experienced half a century of ethnic riots, massacres, even programs. What impact, if any, ...
Muslims of South Asia represent a major chunk of the billion and a half strong Islamic ummah. Within the south Asian subcontinent, Muslims of the Deccan represent a highly visible, upwardly mobile, culturally productive segment of the ummah. However, systematic work on the history of the growth and evolution of the Deccani Muslims based on primary sources is lacking. To date no work exists on the history of the Deccani Muslims. Based on thorough research using ...
What is the condition of the Indian Muslims at the dawn of the twenty first century? What is the demographic profile of the community? What is the percentage of its population in agriculture, industry and the tertiary sector? How do Muslims fare at the national level? Does the Muslim economic condition differ from state to state, given the regional imbalances in the country resulting from unequal development? How does Muslim economic condition in the early twenty ...
Mawlana Sayyid Abul al-Ala Mawduri (1903-79) is widely considered among the most influential of all Islamic thinkers of the twentieth century. His ideas have greatly influenced Islamic movements within his native India-Pakistan subcontinent to the Middle East and Maghrib in the west, and to Southeast Asia in the east due to widely available translation of his works in Arabic, English and other languages. His voluminous interpretation and the translation of the ...