India's Muslims and Lessons for the West

In the 1900s, India had a population of roughly four hundred million: three hundred million Hindus and the rest Muslim. Muslims wanted their own country, Pakistan, and got it. Many Muslims stayed behind in India though. Today the Muslim population of India is close to 200 million, about 15% of the country's population. Once again fissures are opening up. Muslims want to break Kashmir away from India. They have personal laws based on the sharia. Some threaten another partition of the Indian mainland, yet others want to stay with India. What does India's experience with Islam and Muslims portent for the West? The book examines.