From Community to State: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the Unfinished Journey of Muslim Politics
In 1943, Canadian scholar Wilfred Cantwell Smith published Modern Islam in India: A Social Analysis, a study written at a moment when neither Pakistan nor the Partition of India had yet solidified into historical certainties. Smith was observing Indian Muslims within a still-united colonial India, a society in flux, where tradition, religion, modern politics, and […]