Pratinav Anil's Books

Another India

By: Pratinav Anil

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Another India tells the story of the world’s biggest religious minority through vivid biographical portraits that weave together the stories of both elite and subaltern Muslims. By challenging traditional histories and highlighting the neglect of minority rights since Independence, Pratinav Anil argues that Muslims, since 1947, have had to contend with discrimination, disadvantage, deindustrialization, dispossession and disenfranchisement, as well as an unresponsive leadership. He explores the rise and fall of the Indian Muslim elite and the birth of the nationalist Muslim, and emphasizes the importance of class in understanding the dynamics of Indian politics. Anil also sheds light on the vested custodial interests and the depoliticization of the privileged classes, all of which resulted in the elite betrayal by the landed gentry of the ordinary members of the community, a betrayal whose consequences are still felt by India's 200 million Muslims today. Another India ultimately recovers Muslim agency from the back pages of history and offers a different picture of democratic India, challenging received accounts of the world's largest democracy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

290

Publisher

Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

9357088431

ISBN 13

9789357088435

Another India

The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77

By: Pratinav Anil

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Another India

The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77

By: Pratinav Anil

Another India tells the story of the world's biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Muslims--elite and subaltern, secular and clerical, activist and apolitical--it brings the experience of the country's Muslims under a single focus; and, by throwing light on the Indian Muslim condition during the first thirty years of independence, reflects on the true character of democratic India. What we have here is a rather different picture from received accounts of the 'world's largest democracy'. Challenging traditional histories of Nehru's India, Pratinav Anil shows that minority rights were neglected right from independence. Despite its best intentions, the Congress regime that ruled for three decades was often illiberal, intolerant and undemocratic. Muslims had to contend with discrimination, disadvantage, deindustrialization, dispossession and disenfranchisement, as well as an unresponsive leadership. Anil demonstrates how the Muslim elite encouraged depoliticization, taking up seemingly noble but largely inconsequential causes with little bearing on the lives of ordinary members of the community. There was no room for mass protests or collective solidarity in this version of Muslim politics. Another India explores this elite betrayal, whose consequences are still felt by India's 200 million Muslims today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

392

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197754694

ISBN 13

9780197754696

India's First Dictatorship

By: Christophe Jaffrelot,Pratinav Anil

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

India's First Dictatorship

By: Christophe Jaffrelot,Pratinav Anil

In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a 'State of Emergency', resulting in a 21-month suspension of democracy. Jaffrelot and Anil explore this black page in India's history, a constitutional dictatorship of unequal impact, with South India largely spared thanks to the resilience of Indian federalism. India's First Dictatorship focuses on Mrs Gandhi and her son, Sanjay, who was largely responsible for the mass sterilisation programmes and deportation of urban slum-dwellers. However, it equally exposes the facilitation of authoritarian rule by Congressmen, Communists, trade unions, businessmen and the urban middle class, as well as the complacency of the judiciary and media. While opposition leaders eventually closed ranks in jail, many of them collaborated with the new regime--including the RSS. Those who resisted the Emergency, in the media or on the streets, were few in number. This episode was an acid test for India's political culture. While a tiny minority of citizens fought for democracy during the Emergency, in large numbers the people bowed to a strong woman, even worshipped her. Equally importantly, Hindu nationalists were endowed with a new legitimacy. The Emergency was not a parenthesis, but a turning point; its legacy is very much alive today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

534

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197580556

ISBN 13

9780197580554

Another India

The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77

By: Pratinav Anil

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Another India

The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947–77

By: Pratinav Anil

Another India tells the story of the world’s biggest religious minority. Weaving together vivid biographical portraits of a wide range of Indian Muslims—elite and subaltern, secular and clerical, activist and apolitical—it brings the experience of the country’s Muslims under a single focus; and, by throwing light on the Indian Muslim condition during the first thirty years of independence, reflects on the true character of democratic India. What we have here is a rather different picture from received accounts of the ‘world’s largest democracy’. Challenging traditional histories of Nehru’s India, Pratinav Anil shows that minority rights were neglected right from independence. Despite its best intentions, the Congress regime that ruled for three decades was often illiberal, intolerant and undemocratic. Muslims had to contend with discrimination, disadvantage, deindustrialisation, dispossession and disenfranchisement, as well as an unresponsive leadership. Anil demonstrates how the Muslim elite encouraged depoliticisation, taking up seemingly noble but largely inconsequential causes with little bearing on the lives of ordinary members of the community. There was no room for mass protests or collective solidarity in this version of Muslim politics. Another India explores this elite betrayal, whose consequences are still felt by India’s 200 million Muslims today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

392

Publisher

Hurst Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

180526074X

ISBN 13

9781805260745

India's First Dictatorship

The Emergency, 1975 -1977

By: Christophe Jaffrelot,Pratinav Anil

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

India's First Dictatorship

The Emergency, 1975 -1977

By: Christophe Jaffrelot,Pratinav Anil

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

534

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197577822

ISBN 13

9780197577820

Book's by Pratinav Anil

Another India

Another India

Another India

Another India

India's First Dictatorship

India's First Dictatorship

Another India

Another India

India's First Dictatorship

India's First Dictatorship

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email