A trail blazing account that promises to rewrite the story of India’s Partition. Sohal’s masterful study of the ‘Muslim secular’ sheds light on a compelling yet little known ‘third way’ to Indian nationalism. Crafted in opposition to the harsh binaries of ‘secular’ and ‘communal’ nationalisms, it offered a majestic vision of India, inspired by the universalist claims of Islam, as a shared cultural space where Hindu and Muslims were equally valued as the makers of an Indian nation and architects of a future Indian republic.