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India in Transition
Hilal Ahmed
March 3, 2025

Do Muslims need to be represented only by Muslims? This provocative question is usually overlooked to make a few sweeping generalizations about ever-declining numbers of Muslim MPs and MLAs in legislative bodies. Popular journalistic writing on this subject tends to focus entirely on the exact number of Muslim legislators to highlight the political marginalization of Muslims in India.