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But you don't look like a Muslim: essays on identity and culture

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: HarperCollins India 2019 NoidaDescription: 223 pISBN:
  • 9789353026813
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.272 J2B8
Summary: What does it mean to be Muslim in India? What does it mean to look like one’s religion? Does one’s faith determine how one is perceived? Is there a secular ideal one is supposed to live up to? Can people of different faiths have a shared culture, a shared identity? India has, since time immemorial, been plural, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual, where various streams have fed into and strengthened each other, and where dissimilarities have always been a cause for rejoicing rather than strife. These writings, on and about being Muslim in India, by Rakhshanda Jalil – one of the country’s foremost literary historians and cultural commentators – excavate memories, interrogate dilemmas, and rediscover and celebrate a nation and its syncretic culture. But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim is a book that every thinking Indian must read. https://harpercollins.co.in/book/but-you-dont-look-like-a-muslim/
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 7-B / Slot 222 (0 Floor, West Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 297.272 J2B8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 199941

What does it mean to be Muslim in India? What does it mean to look like one’s religion? Does one’s faith determine how one is perceived? Is there a secular ideal one is supposed to live up to? Can people of different faiths have a shared culture, a shared identity? India has, since time immemorial, been plural, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual, where various streams have fed into and strengthened each other, and where dissimilarities have always been a cause for rejoicing rather than strife. These writings, on and about being Muslim in India, by Rakhshanda Jalil – one of the country’s foremost literary historians and cultural commentators – excavate memories, interrogate dilemmas, and rediscover and celebrate a nation and its syncretic culture. But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim is a book that every thinking Indian must read.

https://harpercollins.co.in/book/but-you-dont-look-like-a-muslim/

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