Muslims In North India: Frozen In The Past

The book critically examines various policies announced from time to time by ruling parties towards Muslims, so-called betterment and exposes the hard realities behind them. It also examines in great detail intent of vested interests to create a trouble-free atmosphere for an easy intervention in the largest religious education network of Muslims, Madarsas, on the pretext of modernization. The study puts the onus on emerging middle classes in the qasbahs of various north Indian states like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar in shaping the political destiny of Muslims in secular, democratic and globalized India.

Syed Iqbal Hasnain is presently working as Senior Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Currently, he is chairing the Glacier and Climate Change Commission, Government of Sikkim, and Chairman, Governing Board, Inter-University Centre for Educational Communication.