Post-Islamist Trajectories in India: A Study of Jamaat-e Islami in Kerala

This thesis explores post-Islamist transformations of Jamaat-e Islami Hind, with special reference to its Keralite chapter. It traces the historical and political context in which the ideology of political Islam in India was formulated, and explores the diverse factors leading to the deideologization of Islamism. I examine Jamaat-e Islami’s transformations in the spheres of politics, in JI’s relationship with newly established modern democratic state and secular public sphere in addition to the development of the transformative discourse of gender relations within the Islamist movement. At the end, on a concluding note, the thesis studies the diversification of political trends within Indian Islamism. The thesis contributes to the literature on Indian Islamism, and to the wider scholarship on Islamic reform and Post-Islamism.