Book Reviews : UPINDER SINGH, Ancient Delhi, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 114

Abstract

she has structured her arguments not as a contribution to scholarly dialogue on the history of Indian Muslims in this period, but simply as an answer to polemicists who have seen modern Indian history as shaped by a monolithic Muslim community driven by communalism. Unfortunately, given its length and mass of detail, this book is no more likely to succeed as an intervention in polemical debate than as an effective contribution to scholarly dialogue