ABDUL SHABAN

CASTE AND CLASS Social Diversity, Hierarchy and Cultural Heterogeneity among Muslims of India

Though the media and other journalistic literature in recent years have projected Muslims as socially ‘monolithic’ and with the same ‘identity’ of ‘Muslimness’, Muslims in India, are as diverse and as disparate as ‘Hindus’. The religion as a thin veneer is spread over a block of diverse social practices and conceptions of sub-continental origin like caste, community, kinship, race, gender, language and food habits. This is why, Muslims in India have largely remained unaffected from social and political movements among Muslims elsewhere.

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OPINION Ethnic Diversity, Syncretism and Inclusivity in Indian Society

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