Muslims and Belonging in India

Speakers: Ali Khan Mahmudabad and Katherine Butler Schofield

Chair: Mukulika Banerjee

This event is free and open to all but Registration is mandatory. Seating will be on a first-come first-served basis.

Please note this venue is not accessible to wheelchair users.

This book engages with the question of Muslim rootedness in India. It uses various Muslim ‘voices’ in north India to explore imaginings of the local, regional, and transnational at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Using poetry as an archive and the site of its performance, the musha’irah, as a way of understanding public spaces, the book charts changing understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian at a time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarising question.

Ali Khan Mahmudabad (@Mahmudabad) is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University, India.

David Lunn (@DJLdistraction) is Research Associate & Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS.

Katherine Butler Schofield (@katherineschof8) is Senior Lecturer in South Asian Music and History, King’s College London.

Mukulika Banerjee (@MukulikaB) is Director, South Asia Centre, and Associate Professor in Anthropology, LSE.