During the 1930s, much of the world was in severe economic and political crisis. This upheaval ushered in new ways of thinking about legal and political systems. In some cases, these new ideas transformed states and empires alike. Particularly in scholarship. In academic writings on India however, Muslim political and legal thought has gone relatively unnoticed during this eventful decade. This book fills this gap by mapping the evolution of Muslim political and legal thought from roughly 1927-1940.