The Muslims of India: A Documentary Record (Oxford India Collection)

This is a compilation of original documents by and about the Muslims of India, mostly belonging to the crucial half-century from the Lucknow Pact of 1916 to Independence and Partition in 1947 and its aftermath. As always, this author is precise and thorough, and offers a compilation that reflects well the professed ideas of the main actors involved. He does not provide any extended analysis or critique, except in the workmanly Introduction, where he offers some forthright views and advice for the sizeable minority of Muslims in contemporary India. To me as a reader, it appears that such problems will be eased only when people around the world decide to agree to a more metaphorical, less literal, reading and understanding of religious show more revelations. show less