Review: India’s Muslim Spring by Hasan Suroor

Muslim youth today wish to be independent-minded and liberal, able to exert free will and free choice: Manju Kak in The Outlook

It is generally held that Indian Muslims vote ‘en masse’, that they are a votebank to be cultivated by affirmative action or by the bogey of ‘minority tag’, both of which have been exploited by the spectrum of political parties in an unholy conspiracy for electoral gains. It is assumed that as part of the largest minority grouping in India, they are comfortable with such political and ideological positioning.