Communalism in

Secular India

A Minority Perspective

A new book written by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer

This is a collection of essay on various issues concerning communalism and challenges to secular India. The problems have been viewed here from a minority perspective, especially of the Muslims.

It is hoped that these essays will create proper consciousness among the readers and help us realize our constitutional ideas. Our politicians are obsessed with power, not with the people’s problems. In democracy only the peoples can force them to give attention to their burning problems and this can happen when the people become conscious of the games the political leaders play. We have been engaged in this struggle for the last several decades and it is an ongoing battle which will have to be carried out by both spoken and written words.

CONTENTS

SECTION ONE GENERAL

1. Our Independence and After: A Critical review

2. Future of Inter-Religious And Inter-Cultural Relations

3. On Theories of Peace and Conflict Resolution

4. Sufism: Its Origin and Impact on Indian Islam

5. Fatwas, their Acceptability and their Relevance

6. Danish Cartoons And Muslims

7. Premchand and Composite Culture

8. They Too Fought for Freedom: Role of Minorities in Freedom Struggle

SECTION TWO: RELIGION, IDENTITY, OTHER ISSUES

9. Other World is Possible: What Role Religion Can Play?

10. Identity in A Multi-religious Society

11. Identity and Development in Democracy

12. Indian Muslims: Problems and Paradoxes

13. Women’s Plight in Muslim Society

14. Communal Violence and Minority-Majority Relations

15. Indian Muslims: Reservation or No Reservation?

SECTION THREE: SECULARISM, COMMUNALISM

16. Secularism in India

17. Communal Politics: Climax and Down Fall

18. Future of Communal Relations in India

19. Psychology of Communalism and Communal Violence

20. Kashmiri Youth and Prospects of Peace

21. Jinnah: How much Secular, How much Communal

22. Aligarh Muslim University and The Court Judgment

23. National Integration Council: Is it a Useful Institution?

24. NCERT’s New History Syllabus

25. BJP’s Silver Jubilee: An Assessment

26. On the Cause of Terror Bombing

27. Muslims and Terrorism

28. London Bombings: Violence and Islam

29. Bomb Blasts in Mumbai: Crossing the Limits

30. Malegaon Blasts: Partisan Approach and Biased Police

31. And Now Terrorist Attack in Malegoan: What is the Way Out?

32. Shiv Sena’s Rioting on Black Sunday

33. Vajpayee and the Gujarat carnage

34. They Hate Us, We fear Them: The Situation in Gujarat

35. Gujarat on Fire Again

36. Communal Riots, 2005

37. Communal Riots, 2006

38. Police and Minorities: Will new Policies Help?

39. Representation of Muslims in Police Force And Communal Riots

Total Pages: 250

Price: INR.595/-

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