{"product_id":"making-place-for-muslims-in-kalyani-devaki-menon-9781501760617","title":"Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Place for Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e in Contemporary India looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaces do not simply exist. They are made and remade by the acts of individuals and communities at particular historical moments. In India today, the place for Muslims is shrinking as the revanchist Hindu Right increasingly realizes its vision of a Hindu nation. Religion enables Muslims to re-envision India as a different kind of place, one to which they unquestionably belong. Analyzing the religious narratives, practices, and constructions of religious subjectivity of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi, Kalyani Devaki Menon reveals the ways in which Muslims variously contest the insular and singular understandings of nation that dominate the sociopolitical landscape of the country and make place for themselves. Menon shows how religion is concerned not just with the divine and transcendental but also with the anxieties and aspirations of people living amid violence, exclusion, and differential citizenship. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eMaking Place for Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e in Contemporary India allows us to understand religious acts, narratives, and constructions of self and belonging as material forces, as forms of the political that can make room for individuals, communities, and alternative imaginings in a world besieged by increasingly xenophobic understandings of nation and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kalyani Devaki Menon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501760610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501760617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023","brand":"Kalyani Devaki Menon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057528860927,"sku":"9781501760617","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45924f88-a006-4fce-aaf4-9400d9466362.jpg?v=1685047514","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-place-for-muslims-in-kalyani-devaki-menon-9781501760617","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}