“Muslim Politics in India”

Indian Muslims today need avant garde liberal elite to lead them. These elite must identify themself with other modern liberals in India and must collaborate with them against Muslim as well as Hindu Communalism.

Unless a Muslim liberal intellectual class emerges, Indian Muslims will continue to cling to obscurantist medievalism, communalism, and will eventually perish both socially and culturally.

A worse possibility is that of Hindu revivalism destroying even Hindu liberalism, for the latter can succeed only with the support of the Muslim liberals who could modernize Muslims and try to impress upon them secular democratic ideals.

-Hamid Dalwai in his book “Muslim Politics in India”