Abstract
This chapter foregrounds the social aspect of democracy, taking the political mobilisation of Muslims after the 1990s as an entry point. Rather than understanding democracy as a mode of governance that can be imported or exported, the chapter focuses on the developments within the mobilisations to demarcate the immanent forms of democratic expressions. Examining the possibility of expanding Rajni Kothari’s idea of caste federation to the Muslim democratic politics through a comparative analysis of caste and community, the chapter offers a critique of Kothari’s position on minority politics. The writings of Ambedkar and Deleuze are also evoked to make sense of the praxis of Muslim democratic politics, thinking beyond constitutional safeguards.
