Islam w Indiach. Ideologiczne konflikty na subkontynencie i ich polityczno-społeczne konsekwencje na początku XXI wieku

• Authors: Kłodkowski Piotr

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Islam in India: Ideological Conflicts and Their Socio-political Consequences

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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India’s political coherence largely depends on New Delhi’s ability to build a system of cross-cultural compromises among various communities. While the Muslim minority has lived and prospered in India for more than one thousand years, its relations with the Hindu majority have not always been harmonious. The partition of India in 1947 became a political reference point for many radical politicians interested in inciting communal conflicts that bring them political gains. Indian Muslims remain an ethnically and ideologically divided community and have not succeeded in setting up one political party in independent India. They are usually represented by regional parties in different states, but in all-India elections they frequently vote en bloc for the Indian National Congress, which is commonly perceived as a secular party opposed to extremist Hindu ideology. The author briefly analyses the history of Indian Muslims, presents the political consequences of the “Two Nations” theory and explains the reasons behind inter-religious clashes in contemporary India, predicting that the position of Indian Muslims will become a subject of fierce political debate in the years to come.

Keywords

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Islam; Indie

• Publisher: Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
• Journal: Sprawy Międzynarodowe
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 100-117

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Kłodkowski Piotr