Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Moral economies of communal violence and refugee rehabilitation; 3. Unwinding Hyderabad's pan-Islamic networks; 4. Majority rule versus Mulki Rule: government service and the Hindu majority; 5. Secular Muslim politics in a democratic age; 6. From the language of the bazaar to a minority language: linguistic reorganisation in Hyderabad state and the fate of Urdu; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Using the princely state of Hyderabad as a case study, Sherman surveys the experience of Muslim communities in postcolonial India.

About the Author

Taylor C. Sherman is Associate Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she teaches South Asian history as well as comparative imperial history. Her previous works include State Violence and Punishment in India (2009).

Reviews

'No work has set out so thoroughly the problems, indeed the agony, of those Muslims who remained in India after Partition in 1947. This is a first-class piece of research.' Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London

'This engaging examination of the changes that followed Hyderabad's incorporation illuminates the characteristics of citizenship and secularism in early post-independence India.' Ian Talbot, University of Southampton

'Taylor C. Sherman's book marks an important intervention in contemporary debates over citizenship, belonging, democracy and nationalism.' Asma Rasheed, The Book Review