pt. I. Introduction ; Resistance and acquiescence in North India: Muslim responses to the West ; The myth of unity: colonial and national narratives ; Traditional rites and contested meanings: sectarian strife in colonial Lucknow -- pt. II. Mediating the external: Pan-Islamism and nationalist renewal ; My life: a fragment: Mohamed Ali's quest for identity in colonial India ; Representations of Indian nationalism: ideology and praxis of Azad and Mohamed Ali ; 'Congress Muslims' and Indian nationalism, dilemma and decline c.1928-1934 -- pt. III. Religion, politics and partition ; The Muslim mass contact campaign: a strategy of political mobilization ; The local roots of the Pakistan movement: the Aligarh Muslim University ; Memories of a fragmented nation: rewriting the histories of India's partition ; Divided nationhood: India's partition revisited -- pt. IV. Moradabad Riots, 1980: causes and meanings ; Competing symbols and shared codes: inter-community relation in modern India ; The changing position of the Muslims and the political future of secularism in India, c.1947-1986 -- pt. V. India and Pakistan: why the difference? -- Appendices. I. Report of the Committee appointed by the All Parties Conference (1928) to determine the principles of the Constitution for India ; II. Report of the Working Group on 'Empowering the Minorities' constituted by the Planning Commission in the context of formulation of the Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007), 10 May 2001.
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Account of political movements of Indian Muslims over the last two centuries.