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What are the distinct features of Islam as practised in India, and how have they changed over time?

  • UPSC 2017
  • Religion and Society in India

Islam in India is doctrinally continuous with Islam elsewhere and sociologically unlike it: a faith professing the equality of believers has been lived for a millennium inside a society organised by ritual hierarchy. Its distinctiveness lies in practice, not creed — and practice has been pushed towards the text since the nineteenth century.

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  • What makes Indian Islam distinctive
  • How these features have changed
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