Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation

This book explores the process of monumentalisation of Indo-Islamic historical places and their remaking as political sites in contemporary India situating these within the Muslim political discourse.

Hilal Ahmed is Associate Professor, CSDS, India. He works on political Islam, Indian democracy, and politics of symbols in South Asia. He is the author of A Brief History of the Present: Muslims in New India (2024), Allah Naam ki Siyasat (2023), Siyasi Muslims: A Story of Political Islams in India (2019), Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in Contemporary India (With Peter R deSouza, and Sanjeer Alam, 2019) and Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation (2014). He has also edited Companion to Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence (With Peter R deSouza, and Sanjeer Alam, 2021) Rethinking Muslim Personal Law: Issues, Debates and Reforms (with R. K. Mishra and K. N. Jehangir, 2022) and Sudipta Kaviraj: A Reader (2023).