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Volume : III, Issue : IV, May - 2013 ROLE OF MUSLIM IN INDIAN POLITICS: AN OVERVIEW DHRUB KUMAR Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Three major political traditions may be identified in Muslim leadership before
Independence. First, nationalist Indian Muslims in the Indian National Congress
believed that the common national struggle was in Muslim interests, and more important
than religious distinctions. Second, the Muslim League represented the interests of
Muslim elites—specifically, feudal elites from North and Eastern India in Uttar Pradesh
and Bengal, modernist Muslim elites who had acquired an education in the
Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College and aspired to high positions in bureaucracy,
and entrepreneurs from the Northwest. Finally, in Bengal, the Muslim peasantry, in a
province economically dominated by Hindu landlords, supported the secular populist
Krishak Praja Party, led by Fazlul Huq. Premier of Bengal from 1937 to 1943, Huq
annoyed the British authorities, who found him unhelpful to the war effort owing to his
persistent demands that the central government send grain to mitigate the impact of
famine in Bengal. After reviewing the available literatures it is found that the relations
between political parties and Muslims in India are more sentimental than rational.
Instead of a healthy relation, one sees a relationship based on mutual exploitation,
mistrust and blackmail. On one hand, political parties just want to use the Muslims for
their immediate interests and on the other hand Muslims are content to be playing the
role of pawns in political games. This eight decades old formula for gaining political
mileage has immensely helped its proponents to build their status politically, socially
and even financially. However, it has been an unmitigated disaster for Indian Muslims.
During the past eight decades, Indian Muslims have been steadily falling behind other
countrymen. In every sphere of life - education, financial strength, and social
development - the rate of progress of Indian Muslim has been significantly lower than his
brethren from other faiths. Therefore, in this review article, attempt has been made to
study the past and present status of Indian Muslim especially role in INDIAN POLITICS. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : DHRUB KUMAR, (2013). ROLE OF MUSLIM IN INDIAN POLITICS: AN OVERVIEW. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IV, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2405.pdf References : - John Keay (2001). India: A History. Grove Press. p. 468.
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