The final section, shorter than the previous four, consistsof two essays that deal with the challenge of Hindutva andthe fierce battle over the representation of the history ofHindu-Muslim relations that is so central to understandingthe place of Muslims and Islam in the Hindutva imagination.It seeks to offer alternate visions of Hindu-Muslim relationsrooted in peoples everyday realities that can counter hegemonicnotions of Hindus and Muslims as necessarily separatefrom and opposed to each other.
The final section, shorter than the previous four, consistsof two essays that deal with the challenge of Hindutva andthe fierce battle over the representation of the history ofHindu-Muslim relations that is so central to understandingthe place of Muslims and Islam in the Hindutva imagination.It seeks to offer alternate visions of Hindu-Muslim relationsrooted in peoples everyday realities that can counter hegemonicnotions of Hindus and Muslims as necessarily separatefrom and opposed to each other.