Mushirul Hasan’s edited volume deals with the 47 years before Independence in which there was an upsurge of political activity both in the Hindu and Muslim communities. This series of nineteen articles deals with two correlated develoments over this period, the politicization of the Muslims through the Khilafat movement which was pegged on a pan-Islamic concept —the reinstatement of the Turkish Khalif, a titular custodian and defender of Islamic holy places after his displacement by the British in 1919—and on communalism and its political usage.
January 1983, volume 8, No 4