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By Manzar Imam for TwoCircles.net With scarcity of good ulama, the passing away of Maulana Muhammad Salim Qasmi, rector of Al-Jamia Al-Islamia Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband, has sent a sense of gloom across India. People have written obituaries describing his death as the loss of the last chain in the …

A series of Dalit-Muslim conferences over the past couple of months in states such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana has rekindled hopes among their leaders of forging a joint “social justice” movement in the run-up to the 2019 general election. The Mahmood Madani-led faction of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, …