ABSTRACT
Hindu-Muslim relations are a social drama where different actors play different roles and view the same set of relations from divergent perspectives. The chapter covers the following characters, or dramatis personae: identity entrepreneurs (mobilizing people around communal identities); community brokers (conveying patronage to specific groups); committed secularists (convinced liberals upholding Indian secularism); gentleman communalists (hiding communalist views behind a secularist façade); and Muslim dhimmis (hoping to benefit from submission to Hindu supremacy).
