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I take up this issue pertaining to the confusion of the true nature
of Indian nationalism, however, it is necessary to correct
the general perspective on the vital question of the role of Indian
Muslims in the last two centuries which have witnessed the
resurgence of India's ancient civilization in new forms appropriate
to the spirit of our times. My perspective is different from that of
proponents of Hindu-Muslim culture as well as that of advocates of
undefined Hindutva.
This perspective is that Muslim power
and therefore civilization have been on the retreat all over the
world, including India, that this retreat has accounted for all
movements we have witnessed in the Muslim world in the last two
centuries, and that instead of helping check the retreat, theses
movements have promoted a ghetto psychology among Muslim. To put it
differently, what has generally been regarded as Muslim
aggressiveness and separatism, I treat as isolationism and opting
out. I am in this essay, not concerned with the nature of Muslim
conquest and rule. |
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