01446    a2200157   4500999001700000020001800017082002000035100002300055245007100078260004200149300001600191520086600207650006401073942001201137952013901149  c25248d25248  a9789353026813  a297.0954bJAL-B  aJalil, Rakhshanda   aBut you don't look like a Muslimb: essays on identity and culture  bHarperCollins Publishersc2019aNoida  axiii, 223p.  aWhat does it mean to be Muslim in India? What does it mean to look like one’s religion? Does one’s faith determine how one is perceived? Is there a secular ideal one is supposed to live up to? Can people of different faiths have a shared culture, a shared identity? India has, since time immemorial, been plural, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual, where various streams have fed into and strengthened each other, and where dissimilarities have always been a cause for rejoicing rather than strife. These writings, on and about being Muslim in India, by Rakhshanda Jalil – one of the country’s foremost literary historians and cultural commentators – excavate memories, interrogate dilemmas, and rediscover and celebrate a nation and its syncretic culture. But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim is a book that every thinking Indian must read.  vMuslims--Social conditionsvMuslims--Ethnic identityzIndia  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2019-09-06e7g437.27i2019-09-04l0o297.0954 JAL-Bp50473r2019-09-06 00:00:00v599.00w2019-09-06yBK