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Synopsis This comprehensive anthology of short stories explores Muslim lives and inter-community relationships in the Indian subcontinent. By sensitizing redears to the multicultural reality of Muslime society it effectively dismantles the notion of a homogenized and inalienable Muslim identity and experience, a notion that does not take into account the complex and lived realities of India's more that 1000 million Muslims. Selected from at least twelve Indian languages, the short stories in this volume over almost the eintire twentieth century, and include writers like Saratchandra Chatterjee, Premchand, Ismat Chughtai, Vaikom M. Basheer, N.S. Madhavan, Anand and Thoppil M.Meeran. An authentic social document, this volume will appeal to the general reader as well as historians and those interested in Indian literature.