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CSPS Book Discussion | Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India | Ghazala Wahab

Centre for Studies of Plural Societies (CSPS) organised a book discussion on Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India on 3rd July 2022 at 4.00 PM (IST), authored by Ghazala Wahab. Prof. Mohammad Sajjad commenced the session by thanking CSPS for organising the book discussion. He further stated that this book had raised many pertinent questions. It has engaged itself with the issues confronting Muslim communities in India today and going beyond the mere diagnosis of the situation. It has also attempted to propose some prescriptions, particularly at the end of almost every chapter. The diagnosis and the prescriptions are debatable across the cross sections of commentators and opinion-makers. Prof. Sajjad then invited Ghazala Wahab to shed light on her book and commented that it needs to be rendered in at least some of the major Indian languages to reach the broader public. Ghazala Wahab started the discussion by addressing Prof. Sajjad’s comment, she informed that the Urdu version of the book would be released by the Centre for Development Policy and Practice (CDPP) by the end of this year after having released the first four chapters of the book. Wahab then talked about her book, where she explores the present status of Muslims in India by drawing upon how Islam came into India and the role it played in how Muslims are received differently by the people who preceded them in India. She talks about the various sects within Islam in India and how this phenomenon grew in India. “Islam has been the most feminist of religions”, she asserted and dedicated a chapter to expound on the status of women in Islam. The most significant chapter of the book tries to find the origin of the marginalisation that Muslims have faced in India, which Wahab believes started even before the partition. Further in the discussion, Wahab highlighted the lack of participation in establishing institutions either of modern education or charitable organisations, working on modern transparent, trustworthy principles by the modern, educated, upwardly mobile Muslims. She believes that the opinions of modern people are inclusive in their outlook and conscious of the deliberate marginalisation of Muslims. However, they are discarded because the people within the community believe that modern, educated, upwardly mobile Muslims do not have any locus standi, which proved detrimental to the community. Regarding qualitative Muslim-minority educational institutions, Wahab related it to her experience living in Western Uttar Pradesh. The drive for education amongst the business families or the landed gentry is much less than families with a background or history of education, who are third or fourth-generation educated people in their homes because the former do not expect the children to seek employment outside the family businesses. Answering a participant’s question about Muslim leadership in India, she said, “The Muslim leadership in India has been the most pathetic leadership ever”. She expounded on her statement, stating that the leaders’ reach or sway over the people has been very geographically limited and their inefficiency in raising issues of Muslim welfare. There have been Muslim politicians and many national-level politicians, but they have not been the leader of Muslims. There are seldom Muslim politicians mobilising Muslim people for the sake of more educational institutions in Muslim-dominated areas or making a representation to the government on fake cases against Muslims. In the percentage of prisoners in any Indian jail, the ratio of Muslim prisoners is the highest who are under trial in various prisons. Most of them are under trial, even without the charge sheets. No Muslim politician is talking about this. She believed these are Muslim issues, and if a leader is not taking up these issues, then that leader is not a leader. The discussion ended with her thanking CSPS for the opportunity, adding that she hoped she did not ruffle any feathers or hurt anybody’s sentiments by being candid. About CSPS: Centre for Studies of Plural Societies (CSPS) is an independent, nonprofit, educational, and research training centre in New Delhi to promote the culture of scientific social research. It aims to train young minds to respect or be open to diverse ideas, frameworks, approaches, and concepts while engaging with the knowledge or its production. At CSPS, we believe that the space for meaningful dialogue is the only way to an empowered citizenry. It aims to offer training and support in the spirit of a nuanced and analytical approach, and objective, method-based scientific research on all issues that arise or are at stake in a pluralistic society like India. #CSPSIndia Follow us at:   / cspsindia     / cspsindia     / cspsindia     / cspsindia   https://cspsindia.org