The changing face of Juhapura

April 25, 2014 12:43

Everyone knows of the Muslim ghetto of Ahmedabad. But it is slowly changing. Christopher Jaffrelot makes these points about the area in the Indian Express.

'Juhapura may become the first new "Muslim city' of India anyway. It may also be influenced more by the Gulf countries than by India.'

'Juhapura has continued to attract people, in spite of the fact that there's been no communal mass violence since 2002. Besides safety, Juhapura now offers some facilities to the Muslim middle class (including schools). It's a full-fledged Muslim city in the making. It has a critical mass that minimises Hindu influence and reinforces the traditional sense of self-segregation that minorities tend to develop.'

'In spite of the state's absence, Juhapura has developed '" except for the roads, which are not pucca. In the process, the local notables who patronised the development work have started to exert an authority, which constitutes a rather personalised and authoritarian substitute to state power. This para-state arrangement runs along sectarian lines as Muslims in Juhapura are not more homogenous than elsewhere.'

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