INDIA’S MUSLIM SPRING

There is a new generation of
Muslims who want to rid the community of its insular and sectarian approach
by concentrating on things that affect their everyday lives. 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’. Book Features: A study of Muslim identity in contemporary India.This
book is an attempt to provide a corrective to the often deliberately peddled
negative perceptions of Muslims and to highlight the profound change in
Muslim thinking.A narrative on the younger generation Muslims in India as
more cosmopolitan and inclusive and Indian.Talks of the quiet but historic
shift taking place in the Muslim mood.