1.4.8: Debating Interreligious Friendship in South Asia

In this Urdu and English-language lecture, author SherAli Tareen discusses his book “Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire” (CUP 2023) with with young scholars in South Asia. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia and in the context of British colonialism, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship?

These discussions explore the role of cows as a case study of how South Asian Muslims envisioned interreligious friendships. The panelists also present on the Aligarh-Deoband debate.