Islam in modern India

The Development of Islam in India is one thousand year old and has taken it unique safe due to geographical and historical circumstances. Modern India and especially the freedom movement of India produced many unique features of Islam. This book highlights Islamic development in modem India. The Young Indian Muslims of today, living new lives, think different thoughts from those of their fathers and grandfathers years before them. And the latter's lives and thoughts were different also from those of their grandfathers fifty years still earlier. The history of ideas in Indian Islam during' the period of British rule in India presents half-a-dozen principal new aspects-each corresponding to a major new development in the social environment. Two have been reactions, at some points violent, against those new developments. The others have been successive phases of the constructive adaptation of Islam to the social process. The first reactionary, movement does not fall within the scope of our study.