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008			170510s2018 enka b 001 0 eng c
010			_a 2017022763
020			_a9781138235908 _q(hardback)
040			_cIGNOU Library
050	0	0	_aDS610.25.E37 _bT73 2018
082	0	0	_a305.6970899141105957 T782R _223
100	1		_aTschacher, Torsten, _eauthor. _911072
245	1	0	_aRace, religion, and the "Indian Muslim" predicament in Singapore / _cTorsten Tschacher.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, _c2018.
300			_axi, 242 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aRoutledge studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia ; _v3
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
520			_a"Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community. Despite its size and historic importance, however, Singaporean Indian Muslims have received little attention by scholarship and have also felt side-lined by Singapore's Malay-dominated Muslim institutions. Since the 1980s, demands for a better representation of Indian Muslims and access to religious services have intensified, while there has been a concomitant debate over who has the right to speak for Indian Muslims. This book traces the negotiations and contestations over Indian Muslim difference in Singapore and examines the conditions that have given rise to these debates. Despite considerable differences existing within the putative Indian Muslim community, the way this community is imagined is surprisingly uniform. Through discussions of the importance of ethnic difference for social and religious divisions among Singaporean Indian Muslims, the role of 'culture' and 'race' in debates about popular religion, the invocation of language and history in negotiations with the wider Malay-Muslim context, and the institutional setting in which contestations of Indian Muslim difference take place, this book argues that these debates emerge from the structural tensions resulting from the intersection of race and religion in the public organization of Islam in Singapore"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aEast Indians _zSingapore. _911073
650		0	_aTamil (Indic people) _zSingapore. _911074
650		0	_aMuslims _zSingapore. _911075
651		0	_aSingapore _xRace relations. _911076
651		0	_aSingapore _xReligion. _911077
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