Faith in Democracy

This book delineates the contours of Muslim political articulation and its contribution to democracy in the Telugu region. It examines the emergence of Muslim politics from the debris of Police Action in 1948 in the context of the formation of the first linguistic state of Andhra Pradesh in 1956. Taking linguistic nationalism, caste politics and discourse around social reform as its scaffolding it discusses how Muslims negotiated concerns around their belonging and citizenship in mainstream poli