Colonial Transformations, Postcolonial Afterlives: Extremism, Exclusion and Distrust in India and Pakistan

Abstract

<p>This chapter provides a brief discussion of the religious transformations which took place under British colonial rule and outlines some of the ongoing postcolonial political consequences of these transformations. The chapter reviews some of the colonial attitudes, ideologies and policies towards managing, classifying and organising religion and governing religious communities in colonial India.</p>