A Fascinating Account Of The Muslims In Twentieth-Century India, Pakistan And Bangladesh Through His Biographical Sketches Of Eight Prominent Muslims- Sayyid Ahmed Khan (1817-1898), Fazlul Haq (1873-1962), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), Muhammad Iqbal (1876-1938), Muhammad Ali (1878-1931), Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958), Liaqat Ali Khan (1895-1951) And Zakir Hussain (1897-1969) Rajmohan Gandhi, The Grandson Of Mahatma Gandhi, Provides A Deeply Insightful And Comprehensive Picture Of The Community In The Subcontinent Today.

First published in 2003, Decentring the Indian Nation examines the various centrifugal forces apparent in recent Indian politics. After achieving independence in 1947 India’s elite opted to build a modern nation-state. This idea was carefully nurtured during the fight for freedom from British rule by the dominant Congress movement. In recent years, the idea of a centralised state has been challenged from a number of directions. Strong regional political movements have questioned the assumption that India’s federal system requires a dominant centre. The related trend of identity-based mobilisation has challenged settled notions of Indian national identity. The authors discuss the idea that as a nation, India is becoming ‘decentred’, and consider the implications of this idea for the development of the Indian polity. This book will be of interest to students of politics, geography and development.

Sunanda Tharoor is accursed, she is accused to ruin her life and she is victim due to all of us. Sunanda Pushkar just few hours before her death tweets and sends sms to the senior journalists and wants to meet them to disclose conspiracy of ISI, IPL and Dubai Mafias. Nalini Singh as first witness speaks out. Sunanda's death flames touch Leela Palace to hotel Aman. Shashi Tharoor when in UN doesn't sit on the gold bar loaded truck running from Iraq but saves the Congress and Sonia Gandhi from the Oil for Food scam and in reward gets the ministerial berth. Mehr Tarar tweets for her country's ISI as well as for her latest lover Shashi Tharoor. What type of this love Jihad is? Her spying eye moves toward Omar also. Dr Gupta of AIIMS raises finger on Ghulam Nabi Azad. Mehr follows the path of Arrosa Alam who had affair with Capt Amrinder Singh. Why is Dubai focal point? Sunny Varkey nearer to Tharoor and Bill Clinton presents Sunanda Pushkar to Shashi Tharoor in Dubai. Sex is a game for high society celebrities and politicians. Minister of State in the PMO, Jitendra Singh opens the debate on the Article 370. Iraq Afghan terror looms on Kashmir. PM Modi says a good neighbour is important for a country's happiness. Sheikh abdullah's and Nehru's present heirs remind us: "Nehru's romance with Edwina gave birth to Art 370 and PoK and Let the priests go to Mecca, we will go to UK" "We're a tiny 3% in the valley; even then we remain refugees in our own nation because we are not vote bank. Is it not bloody paw on the back of secular structure of our India? Kashmir a paradise lost can be found again to abrogate Article 370" -Pain of Kashmiri Pundits When read conflicting tweets between Shashi, Sunanda and Mehr it seems and reach the final page: Shashi Tharoor's sexual frustration leads him into an affair with the Mehr Tarar to leave ill Sunanda.

In the book, Indian Muslims, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan explains that centuries ago, the Arab Muslims who came to India, were welcomed because of their superior qualities. In his Discovery of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru writes of the Arabs coming to India with their 'brilliant culture' (p.227). For centuries, the Muslims have lived amongst other cultures in India as one of them. Then India gained independence in 1947. But at this point, the Muslims, lacking an effective leadership, became the victims of circumstances. Prior to 1947, they had enjoyed the status of a giver group. But after 1947, they were reduced to being a mere taker group. And this is the greatest tragedy for the Muslims in modern India. This book offers guidance to Indian Muslims on how to become a giver community once again.

Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) was a multidimensional personality—a freedom fighter, social reformer, writer, poet, historian, political leader and philosopher—all combined into one. Savarkar’s ideas of modernity, social and religious reforms, cultivation of scientific temper and embracing technological tools continue to be relevant in the 21st century. ‘Relevance of Savarkar Today’ 25 pearls of visionary wisdom by Veer Sawarkar, is the product of deep study and research by Dr. Ashok Modak. Savarkar’s own quotations, author’s expert comments and nearly 60 supporting comments by senior political leaders, social reformers, intellectuals in 25 chapters illustrate the relevance of following visionary messages of Savarkar for a new India of 21st century. Bring out a strong cohesive social fabric by unity Hindutva embraces the whole being of Hindu race Brave foreign policies for total defence of India Strong India for the total happiness of mankind.

Seventeen distinguished historians and political scientists discuss the phenomenon of Indian Nationalism, one hundred years after the founding of the Congress party. They offer important new interpretations of Nationalism's evolution during more than six decades of crucial change and rapid growth. As India's foremost political institution, the National Congress with its changing fortunes mirrored Indian aspirations, ideals, dreams, and failures during the country's struggle for nationhood. Many difficulties face by the pre-independence Indian National Congress are critically examined for the first time in this volume. Major times of crisis and transition are considered, as well as the tension between mass action and political control and the problem of creating and maintaining unity in the face of divisive social and economic interests and between deeply hostile religious communities. A composite portrait of the Congress Party emerges. We see a coalition of often conflicting communities and interests much like India itself, struggling to stay together, tenuously united by little more at times than a common "enemy," the imperial British Raj. But linked together in precarious, seemingly haphazard fashion, shifting networks of elite political entrepreneurs manage to keep India's National Congress alive long enough to convince the British that it would be easier to "Quit India" than to try to hang on to it by force. With the abrupt transfer of power form the British to the independent Dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947, Congress provided institutional sinews for the administration of what had been British India and over five hundred Princely States. By contributing to a deeper understanding of India's nationalist experience, this volume may illuminate the experience of other Third World states. Essays by:S. BhattacharyaJudith M. BrownMushirul HansanZoya HasanD.A. LowClaude MarkovitsJohn R. McLaneW.H. Morris-JonesGyanendra PandeyBimal PrasadRajat Kanta RayBarbara N. RamusackPeter D. ReevesHitesranjan SanyalRichard SissonStanley WolpertEleanor Zelliot This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

This work sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. The contributors identify several factors: a radical dualism, a destructive inclination to interpret authoritative texts paranoid thinking, and an apocalyptic world view.