India's Muslim Spring: Why is Nobody Talking about it?

Hasan Suroor

ISBN 10: 812913098X / ISBN 13: 9788129130983

Published by Rainlight, 2014

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This book focuses on the current Muslim mood in India, particularly that of the youth who are trying to move the community into a new-more positive-direction. Despite a marked increase in religiosity and an assertion of Muslim identity, young Muslims are more secular and forward-looking than the older generation. They also have a strong sense of belonging to India, and see no contradiction between being proud Indians and proud Muslims at the same time. Keen to draw a line under the past, they are harbingers of India s equivalent of Muslim spring .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: India's Muslim Spring: Why is Nobody Talking about it?
• Publisher: Rainlight
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 812913098X
• ISBN 13: 9788129130983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book focuses on the current Muslim mood in India, particularly that of the youth who are trying to move the community into a new more positive direction. Despite a marked increase in religiosity and an assertion of Muslim identity, young Muslims are more secular and forward-looking than the older generation. They also have a strong sense of belonging to India, and see no contradiction between being proud Indians and proud Muslims at the same time.

Keen to draw a line under the past, they are harbingers of India s equivalent of Muslim spring .

About the Author

Hasan Suroor is a London-based journalist and has written extensively on identity politics, communalism and Muslim issues. In 1993, he won the prestigious Ford Foundation Press Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, to study the British experience of multiculturalism. He returned to Wolfson College in 1998 as a Visiting Fellow.

A Delhi University graduate, Suroor started his career with The Statesman, Delhi, in the early 1970s when as the joke goes it was still a newspaper. Later, he moved to The Hindu and was its UK correspondent for well over a decade.