Making place for Muslims in contemporary India /Kalyani Devaki Menon.

Menon, Kalyani Devaki,

Making place for Muslims in contemporary India /Kalyani Devaki Menon. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

A place for Muslims -- Gender and precarity -- Perfecting the self -- Living with difference -- Life after death.

"This is an ethnography of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi that examines how religion provides an arena to make place for the community, and to challenge exclusionary understandings of nation and belonging in contemporary India"--



9781501760600 9781501760594

2021031532


Muslims--Social conditions.--India
Muslims--History.--India--Delhi
Muslims--India--Delhi--Case studies.
Muslims--Cultural assimilation--India.
Social integration--Religious aspects--Islam.


Electronic Books.

DS432 / .M355 2022