Conclusion - "In Their Place?" The Trajectories of Marginalisation of India's Urban Muslims
Abstract
The empirical research encapsulated in the case studies of this volume provides us with some elements of response to the question raised by Perceval Spear some forty-five years ago: urban Muslims of India have experienced a significant decline since Independence and this evolution has been accompanied by substantial changes in their patterns of localisation in Indian cities, which have been transforming the social geography of the latter...