Rev.: Kalyani Devaki Menon. (2022). Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press
In:
Nidan. International Journal of Indian Studies
(No.: 8)
vol. 8, no. 1
Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, Heidelberg, 2023
p. 177-182
Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India is a poignant and brilliant book onMuslim religious minorities in Old Delhi and their efforts at social, historical, and political place-making in contemporary India—an Indiathat is increasingly defined byHindu nationalist politics.