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"Urban India, the locus of the country's economic surge, is home to over a third of India's Muslims--and it is there that the diverse cultures of Muslim India once flourished. Yet today, India's urban Muslims are the most disprivileged of its urban citizens, and their life-chances are sharply constrained in every respect. In this pioneering set of political ethnographies, the predicament of Indian Muslims is examined across a dozen cities. Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot's substantial volume at once illuminates empirical conditions and tests theories about ghettoization, integration, and the political attitudes of India's urban Muslims."--Sunil Khilnani, director of the India Institute, King's College London
"Christophe Jaffrelot's range of scholarship is amazing, and his new book, Muslims in Indian Cities, coedited with Laurent Gayer, illustrates well his wide-ranging interests. The contributions are instructive and insightful and cover a much-neglected theme in contemporary South Asia."--Mushirul Hasan, director general of the National Archives of India
"This is certainly the best empirically-researched book on Muslims in contemporary India that I've read. It brilliantly highlights the magnitude of Muslim marginalization and the desperate need to address it."--Yoginder Sikand, author of Muslims In India Since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations and Bastions Of The Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education In India
"The volume is an important reference for researches on Muslims in contemporary India." -- Mohammad Talib, Oxford Journals Book Review
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