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A 'Muslim' way of thinking?

What were the Muslim leaders thinking about politics and law in the years that finally culminated in their demand for a separate country? Adeel Hussain's book tells us what, or tries to

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
Back in 1987, the late poet A K Ramanujan wrote an essay called “Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?”. A more appropriate title might have been “Is There a Hindu Way of Thinking?” because that’s what the essay was about.

Ramanujan had assumed that all Indians were Hindus, I think, a common enough feature. The essay was devoted to moral issues and how for the Hindus morality was contextual.

But recently I read a book that talks about how Muslim Indians thought about legal and political issues in the 1920s and 1930s. As the Americans say, we get a sense of
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