ABSTRACT
Over the past one century, Park Circus has transformed from an exclusive residential enclave meant for educated, upwardly mobile, Bengali-speaking Muslims to its present status of an overcrowded, socially heterogeneous inner-city area primarily inhabited by lower-class migrant Muslims. The understanding of Muslim marginalisation in India's urban spaces as presented in the various chapters has largely emerged from the field itself and is drawn from the author's experiences during fieldwork in Park Circus. This chapter presents some concluding thoughts on the concepts isdcussed in the various chapters of this book. The various chapters attempt to locate and describe the different forms of marginalisation that Muslims in Kolkata face. They also try to understand the ways in which its peculiarly spatial aspect bears upon and further compounds the experience of marginalisation for most of the city's Muslims. The book remains primarily a descriptive account of Muslim experiences in the Park Circus neighbourhood.
