Mushirul Hasan, the editor of this volume, is Professor of Modern Indian History and Director of the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has published: Legacy of a Divided Nation: India’s Muslims Since Independence (1997); John Company to the Republic: The Emergence of Modern India (2001); Islam in the Subcontinent: Muslims in a Plural Society (2002); Making Sense of History: Society, Culture and Politics (2003), and From Pluralism to Separatism: Qasbas in Colonial Awadh (2004). His forthcoming book is on Reform and Renewal in Islam: Delhi’s Intellectuals in the Nineteenth Century.