| ID | 165251 |
| Title Proper | Mediating Muslim citizenship? AIMIM and its letters |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Suneetha, A ; Moid, M A |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Many scholars of the Indian State now argue that, given its limited resources and capacities to recognize and service its citizen-subjects, it relies on numerous mediators, including political parties, to administer, govern and rule its populace. The discourse of Indian citizenship meanwhile has moved towards the principle of ethnicity, making Muslim citizenship – as a legal status, a bundle of rights and entitlements, or a sense of identity and belonging (Jayal, 2013, Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2) – an increasingly fraught terrain. Located in this theoretical context, our paper examines the political mediation process put in place by the Hyderabad based Muslim political party, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). Drawing on fieldwork at its office, known as Darussalam, during 2010–2011, we argue that this organized mediation is a response to the marginalization of Muslims in the region, which has also evolved to respond to the needs of another marginalized population, Dalits. As such it should be read as a likely form that political representation of the marginalized and Muslims could take in post-colonial India. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary South Asia Vol. 27, No.1; Mar 2019: p.117-132 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary South Asia Vol: 27 No 1 |
| Key Words | Political Parties ; Muslim Politics ; Representation ; Political Mediation ; Hyderabad Politics ; All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen |