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