Muslims in Indian Cities by Christophe Jaffrelot

However, self-segregation has also played a part in forming Muslim enclaves, such as in Delhi and Aligarh, where traditional elites and a new Muslim middle class have regrouped for physical and cultural protection.Ĭombining firsthand testimony with sound critical analysis, this volume follows urban Muslim life in eleven Indian cities, providing uncommon insight into a little-known but highly consequential subject. These cities are rife with Muslim ghettos and slums. Muslims In Indian Cities: Trajectories Of Marginalisation - Kindle edition by Jaffrelot, Christophe, Laurent Gayer, Christophe / Gayer, Laurent Jaffrelot. In the Hindi belt and in the north, Muslims have known less peace, especially in the riot-prone areas of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Jaipur, and Aligarh, and in the capitals of former Muslim states - Delhi, Hyderabad, Bhopal, and Lucknow. Within India’s cities, however, the challenges Muslims face can be harder to read. More than 150 million Muslims live in India, the largest minority, yet they are losing power. While the quality of Muslim life may lag behind that of Hindus nationally, local and inclusive cultures have been resilient in the south and the east. In this book, Christophe Jaffrelot recounts how the Hindu nationalist movement under the leadership of Modis BJP has deeply transformed the country.

Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, India’s Muslims are often targets of violence and collective acts of murder. Numbering more than 150 million, Muslims constitute the largest minority in India, yet they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. This book supplements an ethnographic approach of Muslims in 11 Indian cities with a quantitative methodology in order to give a first hand account of an untold.

Muslims in Indian Cities by Christophe Jaffrelot