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Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. About Salman Khurshid. The book, which covers a wide span from the late 19th century to the present and highlights the pivotal roles played by distinguished Indian Muslims, is a comprehensive, definitive and forceful account.
Khurshid, who argues that Muslims do feel at home in India, does not shy from hypersensitive issues such as terrorism, communal riots, Uniform Civil Code, present-day Muslim leadership or lack of and the place of women in Islam. But while underscoring the significance of the 'trust deficit' on part of Muslims vis-a-vis the police and government, the author, himself a leading Muslim leader, does not explain why he sulked when he was appointed Minority Affairs minister. Khurshid, who eventually got the high profile portfolio of External Affairs, kept the ministry created to bring welfare to his community, defunct.
In the book, Khurshid says Muslims constitute a crucial vote bank for the Congress party. He even advises his party not to take their support for granted. But who actually deceives the community? Muslim political leaders forget that their party gives them tickets to hold on to the Muslim electorate. But after becoming MPs and ministers, they forget that mandate. This approach leads to a credibility deficit, with the community viewing them as 'show boys' rather than leaders who can guide them towards equal participation in India.
Though Indian Muslims lag behind in every sphere, they have used their electoral power to effectively punish their detractors. Muslims were instrumental in decimating the Congress in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh following the Bhagalpur communal riots and Meerut riots, respectively. But definitely, they are at home in India. Post , they have abandoned Pakistan as an option, but have been held in a perpetual unfair guilt complex for partitioning the country.
The violence in Kashmir, for one, hardly evokes a sense of empathy among Muslims in the rest of the country. Their offence: cheering the Pakistani team after it won the cricket match against India. Undoubtedly, the Kashmir crisis includes an inherent communal angle as its roots lie in the Partition. Indian Muslims have largely kept themselves aloof, even though intelligence agencies claim that like small sections of Sikhs during the Khalistani movement, some Indian Muslims too were on the radar of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ISI.
Since the early s, the agency had tried to motivate sections of Muslim youths to cross the border for training.
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