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Summary
that identity-based majorities and minorities were incompatible and had to be separated out into sovereign equals, Azad, Abdullah, and Ghaffar Khan thought differently about the problem of religious pluralism in a postcolonial democracy. The minority, they contended, could conceive of the majority not just as an antagonistic entity that is set against it, but to which it can belong and uniquely complete. Premising its claim to a single, united India upon the universalism of Islam, champions of the Muslim secular mobilised notions of federation and popular sovereignty to replace older monarchical and communitarian forms of power. But to finally jettison the demographic inequality between Hindus and Muslims, these thinkers redefined equality itself. Rejecting its liberal definition for being too abstract and thus prone to majoritarian assimilation, they replaced it with their own rendition of Indian parity to simultaneously evoke commonality and distinction between Hindu and Muslim
peers. Azad, Abdullah, and Ghaffar Khan achieved this by deploying a range of concepts from profane inheritance and theological autonomy to linguistic diversity and ethical pledges. Retaining their Muslimness and Indian nationality in full, this crowning notion of equality-as-parity challenged both Gandhi and Nehru's abstractions and Mohammad Ali Jinnah's supposedly dangerous demand for Pakistan.
Author Biography
An intellectual historian of modern India and Pakistan, Amar Sohal completed his DPhil in History at Merton College, Oxford. Now an Early-Career Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his research focuses on anti-colonial nationalism, religious politics, and the secular state. His writing has been published in leading academic journals: Modern Intellectual History, Global Intellectual History, and South Asia. He has also scripted and presented an hour-long documentary titled Azad and Jinnah: A Political Rivalry in Late Colonial India. He tweets @sohalamarsingh
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I INHERITING HINDUSTAN: ABUL KALAM AZAD AND THE CONGRESS MUSLIMS
1. Secularism as Culture
2. The Indian Intoxicant
PART II BEYOND THE REGION: INDIA IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SHEIKH ABDULLAH AND ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN
3. A Three-Nation Theory
4. An Ethical Country
Conclusion
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