This book studies how marginality impacts the everyday lives of Indian Muslims. It challenges the prevailing myths and stereotypes through which Indian Muslims have come to be seen in the popular imagination. The volume engages with questions of citizenship, collective violence, and issues of civil and criminal jurisprudence. It explores the linkages between development, marginality, and citizenship – the three critical issues for modern democracies today. Going beyond the singular narrative of a community on a continuous slide, the chapters in this volume present diversities of the Muslim experience of exclusion and participation. It discusses themes such as violence and marginality among minorities; Indian Muslims and the ghettoized economy; employment aspirations of low-income Muslim men; intergenerational social mobility of Muslims; the nature of the middle class; and the question of Islam, development, and globalization to showcase the living conditions of Muslims in India.
Part of the Religion and Citizenship series, this timely volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, political sociology, minority studies, public policy, religion, citizenship studies, diversity and inclusion studies, and social anthropology.
Author(s): Tanweer Fazal, Divya Vaid, Surinder S. Jodhka
Series: Religion and Citizenship
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 279
City: London
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Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Author Biographies
Preface
Introduction: The Muslim Question in Contemporary India
Section I Development Trajectories
1 Post-Sachar Indian Muslims: Facets of Socio-Economic Decline
2 Islam, Development and Globalization: Transformation of a Traditionalist Muslim Group in Kerala
3 Degrees of Disadvantage: Education as Social Equalizer in India’s Labour Market?
Section II Mobile Landscapes
4 Social Mobility Patterns, Opportunities, and Barriers: Muslims in Contemporary India
5 In the Middle of the Ocean and Land: Muslims of Mangalore
6 The Old and the New Muslim Middle Class: Classificatory Practices and Social Mobility
7 Delayed and Depleted: In Search of the Missing Muslim Middle Class in India
8 Aspirations of Muslim Men in Delhi: Importance of Self-Employment in Jamia Nagar
Section III Quest for Citizenship: Marginality, Mobility, and Violence
9 Swan Song: Muslim Musicians in Contemporary Banaras: Stories of Survival and Denial
10 Indian Muslims and the Ghettoised Economy: The Role of Negative Emotions on Occupational Choices in the Urban Labour Markets
11 From the Bigoted Julaha to the Terrorist: Stigma and Identity in Azamgarh
12 Marginality among Muslims in Kerala: The Case of Marakkayar Community
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