From the Mag: M.J. Akbar's Essay ; a Change That Alters the Political Matrix Is Upon Us: In the Electoral Politics of Muslims, Fear of the Future Is Replaced by Existential Angst.
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When does tomorrow begin? If it always began at midnight, we might be better able to prepare for it. The trouble with tomorrow is that it began so many yesterdays ago. How do you change yesterday in order to finesse towards a better tomorrow? Every yesterday pauses, and eventually comes to an end: that is the good news.
The politics of Islam should not be confused with the politics of Muslims. The former is the stuff of seminaries, although its consequences can seep on to the street. The most Indian instance is surely the rancorous-one must never underestimate the passions of doctors of doctrine-debate between the Barelvis and Deobandis. Muslim politics moves on a different trajectory, which is why so often famous Indian maulvis seem to get left behind in the electoral race.See the full content of this document
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From the Mag: M.J. Akbar's Essay ; a Change That Alters the Political Matrix Is Upon Us: In the Electoral Politics of Muslims, Fear of the Future Is Replaced by Existential Angst.
The most important Indian Muslim political movement, which culminated in the demand for Pakistan between 1940 and 1947, was led by a self-declared secularist, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and opposed by the largest union of clerics, the Deoband-oriented Jamaat-e-Ulema. Jinnah cantered home to Pakistan after he swept the general elections of 1946. (He would have approved of the v...
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