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This book is about a devastating tragedy that befell the Muslims in post-’47 India. In the pages that follow one gets acquainted with a revolutionary Ummah which, in its ideological wilderness, shuns its idealism and is eventually swallowed up by a seemingly neutral ideology of secularism. This conversion of Muslim Indians, from Islam to secularism, though in itself a clear case of apostasy, has otherwise gone unnoticed.
The decade preceding the 1947 Indian partition was an eventful period, with profound impact on the subsequent political developments of the states thus created. Though works dealing with this period abound, most of these have an all-India focus. There is a dearth of research-based books and other works covering the Bengal situation. Bengal, then a Muslim-majority province in eastern India, was the bastion of the Muslim League/Pakistan movement. Perhaps there ...
Islam as a demonizing force has been one of the celebrated themes in western literature and so has been the depiction of the Christian west as the citadel of a lost civilization in Muslim evangelical and literary writings. Despite scores of interfaith dialogues that the last century witnessed and our mutual willingness to create a peaceful world, we have not been able to look at the Muslim people as they are; and ordinary lot living under a constant tension of ...
This is a post-9/11 book on Islam. Creative nations always turn their crisis hours into opportune moments. This book intends just to set the ball rolling in the right direction. For centuries we Muslims have been accustomed to virtually living in the past. No doubt our past has been bright but now it has a deadening effect on us. Desperate to regain the lost glory of the bygone days, we often end up with the romanticization of the past. For many amongst us, the ...