Pushed to the Edge

How independent India privileged majoritarianism over syncretism. An extract

Pratinav Anil

The Congress only permitted, so to speak, Muslim politics in Hyderabad in the late fifties—at a time and on terms of its choosing. The AIMIM leadership was released from prison in 1957, when the Congress, cynically enough, felt it could benefit from a counterweight to t…

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