ABSTRACT
The analytical approach to comprehend Gandhi’s position on Muslims of India often depends on his views on Islam and/or on the criticism of what is called Muslim appeasement. This chapter does not subscribe to these arguments. The chapter explores Gandhi’s imagination of Muslims of India, evoking his creative conceptualization of religious communities in a colonial context. The chapter examines the ways Gandhi interprets the Muslims of India as an identifiable religious group and asks a simple question: why he virtually paid no attention to the empirically evident Muslim socio-religious plurality.
