Part 1: Who Can Speak for the Muslims of India
Part 2
BB has made a comment calling Pakistanis “strayed Muslim Indians“; which does not quite make sense, because Pakistanis are both Indic & Islamic, uniquely so. One cannot deny the highly syncretic and distinct Muslim subculture that has come about from a very long and deep history in India. It cannot be subsumed into an Indian identity in any meaningful way without acknowledging that distinctiveness.
But the phrasing opens a useful equation.
Pakistanis = Indian Muslims with sovereignty.
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