From the blurb: Shubh Mathur s account of the resistible rise of Hindu
chauvinism in the north Indian state of Rajasthan is at once a remarkable piece
of contemporary scholarship and a great human document. This is a searingly
honest piece of writing, with an unashamedly partisan position, but without
compromising the demands of theoretical rigor and empirical depth. Shubh Mathur
s book provides a fine-grained account of the tortured response of India s
Muslims to the emerging shifts in a social order that has begun to view them
with increasing weariness, impatience and a hectoring command to assimilate .
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