Description: This volume highlights the historical complexities bound up in Hindu-Muslim relations in South Asia and challenges over-simplistic understandings of these relations by demonstrating that they are, and have always been, complex and contingent.
Brief description: Janaki Nair was Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, until her retirement in 2020. She has written on the social, cultural and political history of modern India. She has published widely in Indian and international journals. Her publications include Women and Law in Colonial India (1996) and Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore (1998).
Review Quotes:
"Hindu, Muslim is a welcome contribution to a growing body of literature on religious and social identities in South Asia. In prioritizing depth over breadth, the volume offers a robust, refreshing set of viewpoints that add layers of complexity to a subject of interest to all South Asianists." --Audrey Truschke, Professor, Rutgers University-Newark, USA
"Ranging from the earliest Arab writings on Indian culture to today's "love jihad"-- with chapters embracing politics, musicology, memory studies, literary studies, art history, and much more -- this timely volume explores the myriad and complex ways that peoples of two great religious traditions have responded to each other." --Richard M. Eaton, Professor of History, University of Arizona, USA