Marginalities and Mobilities among India’s Muslims Elusive Citizenship

This book studies how marginality impacts the everyday lives of Indian Muslims. It challenges the prevailing myths and stereotypes through which Indian Muslims have come to be seen in the popular imagination. The volume engages with questions of citizenship, collective violence, and issues of civil and criminal jurisprudence. It explores the linkages between development, marginality, and citizenship – the three critical issues for modern democracies today. Going beyond the singular narrative of a community on a continuous slide, the chapters in this volume present diversities of the Muslim experience of exclusion and participation. It discusses themes such as violence and marginality among minorities; Indian Muslims and the ghettoized economy; employment aspirations of low-income Muslim men; intergenerational social mobility of Muslims; the nature of the middle class; and the question of Islam, development, and globalization to showcase the living conditions of Muslims in India. Part of the Religion and Citizenship series, this timely volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, political sociology, minority studies, public policy, religion, citizenship studies, diversity and inclusion studies, and social anthropology.

List of Tables List of Figures Author Biographies Preface Introduction: The Muslim Question in Contemporary India Tanweer Fazal, Divya Vaid and Surinder S. Jodhka SECTION I Development Trajectories 1 Post-Sachar Indian Muslims: Facets of Socio-Economic Decline Christophe Jaffrelot and Kalaiyarasan A. 2 Islam, Development and Globalization: Transformation of a Traditionalist Muslim Group in Kerala M. S. Visakh and R. Santhosh 3 Degrees of Disadvantage: Education as Social Equalizer in India’s Labour Market? Mohd. Sanjeer Alam SECTION II Mobile Landscapes 4 Social Mobility Patterns, Opportunities, and Barriers: Muslims in Contemporary India Divya Vaid 5 In the Middle of the Ocean and Land: Muslims of Mangalore Shaunna Rodrigues 6 The Old and the New Muslim Middle Class: Classificatory Practices and Social Mobility Tanweer Fazal 7 Delayed and Depleted: In Search of the Missing Muslim Middle Class in India Amir Ali 8 Aspirations of Muslim Men in Delhi: Importance of Self-Employment in Jamia Nagar Aashti Salman SECTION III Quest for Citizenship: Marginality, Mobility, and Violence 9 Swan Song: Muslim Musicians in Contemporary Banaras: Stories of Survival and Denial Zarin Ahmad 10 Indian Muslims and the Ghettoised Economy: The Role of Negative Emotions on Occupational Choices in the Urban Labour Markets Sumeet Mhaskar 11 From the Bigoted Julaha to the Terrorist: Stigma and Identity in Azamgarh Manisha Sethi 12 Marginality among Muslims in Kerala: The Case of Marakkayar Community Salah Punathil Index

Tanweer Fazal is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hyderabad, India. Divya Vaid teaches Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.