The Muslims of British India

Peter Hardy sets out a general history of British India's Muslims. He shows how recollections of an earlier Muslim dominance, aspirations rooted in Islam and anxieties about social and economic change combined with the political needs of the colonial rulers, and gradually fostered a separate Muslim politics.

Against the usual view, the book argues that Muslims were able to take political initiatives of their own.

Published by Cambridge University Press, with ISBN-13 9780521097833. Written by Peter Hardy.