This work should be of interest not only to political sociologists but also for historians and political scientists given its awareness of the historical archive, government reports, political debates in and outside the legislative assembly, etc." - Javed Iqbal Wani, Royal Holloway, University of London, South Asian History and Culture Volume 6, Issue 4, 2015 Tanweer Fazal's book historicizes this complex sociology of nationalism and the nation-state from the vantage point of minorities and the discourse of minority rights. [...] As a historically conscious and comparative account of minority rights in India, this book is a remarkably valuable intervention in the field. [...] Fazal's book is an important analysis of the problematic discourse of minority rights in India. The book straddles a range of disciplines and methods and marks a notable interdisciplinary attempt to capture the dialectic between nation, nationalism, minority identities and rights in India. Rajesh Dev, University of Delhi in Pacific Affairs