How Indian Politics Uses Hindu vs Muslim To Cover Up Caste

Описание: When India was about to be partitioned, one group of Muslims was trying to stop it. Why didn't the succeed? Well, it has something to do with a political dynamic that continues till today.

In our fifth and penultimate episode of Past Continuous, we explore how Hindu-Muslim politics is used to hide deeper issues.

India Ink is a public history project that simplifies complicated ideas from Indian history that are relevant to today's debates.

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For a deep dive into how caste breaks the secularism-communalism binary, read Khalid Ansari 2018, Contesting Communalism in Prabuddha Journal. https://www.academia.edu/36719069/Con...

[4:44] William Gould. 2005: “Contesting secularism in colonial and postcolonial north India between the 1930 and 1950s”. Contemporary South Asia, 14-4, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/....

[5:19] Khalid Ansari, 2017, “Caste should be seen as the overarching category in Indian society: Khalid Anis Ansari,” Round Table India,
https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.p...

[5:38] Papiya Ghosh. 1997, “Partition’s Biharis,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, xv-2, Partition's Biharis | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press (dukeupress.edu).

[5:54] Papiya, Ghosh, 1997.

[6:04] Papiya Ghosh. 1997.

[6:29] Papiya Ghosh. 1997.

[7:09] Papiya Ghosh. 1997.

[8:29] Ali Anwar, 2000, Masawat ki Jung, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan. Nandini Gooptu, 2001, The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[8:54] Santosh Kumar Rai, 2012, “Muslim Weavers’ Politics in Early 20th Century Northern India,” Economic & Political Weekly, 47-15, https://www.epw.in/journal/2012/15/sp...

[9:14] Ali Anwar, 2000, Masawat ki Jung, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan.

[10:02] Santosh Kumar Rai, 2012.

[10:24] Data about Muslim employment and other indicators from Sachar Committee Report, 2006, https://minorityaffairs.gov.in/report...

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