Adeel Hussain is an Assistant Professor of Legal and Political Theory at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Before joining Leiden University, Adeel clerked at the Court of Appeals in Frankfurt, worked for an international law firm, and advised the Government of Afghanistan on constitutional and administrative reform. His research focuses on jurisprudence, comparative constitutional law, international law, and the global history of legal and political thought, with an emphasis on South Asia and Europe. This is his first monograph.

Offering a striking new perspective on the making of Muslim politics in colonial India, Adeel Hussain argues that law and legal thinking came to comprise its primary site. Rather than sulking in their tents and taking to religion with the establishment of British rule, Muslims deployed the law to shape the colonial state as well as remake themselves into a polity without sovereignty. In the process, Hussain gives us a novel interpretation of political thought in colonial societies.

• 1: Introduction 2: In Search of Vulnerabilities Lost 3: Shahidganj and the Burden of Time 4: Jinnah: A Thinker of Existential Survival 5: Iqbal and Combative Constitutionalism 6: Conclusion

Adeel Hussain is an Assistant Professor of Legal and Political Theory at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Before joining Leiden University, Adeel clerked at the Court of Appeals in Frankfurt, worked for an international law firm, and advised the Government of Afghanistan on constitutional and administrative reform. His research focuses on jurisprudence, comparative constitutional law, international law, and the global history of legal and political thought, with an emphasis on South Asia and Europe. This is his first monograph.

Offering a striking new perspective on the making of Muslim politics in colonial India, Adeel Hussain argues that law and legal thinking came to comprise its primary site. Rather than sulking in their tents and taking to religion with the establishment of British rule, Muslims deployed the law to shape the colonial state as well as remake themselves into a polity without sovereignty. In the process, Hussain gives us a novel interpretation of political thought in colonial societies.

• 1: Introduction 2: In Search of Vulnerabilities Lost 3: Shahidganj and the Burden of Time 4: Jinnah: A Thinker of Existential Survival 5: Iqbal and Combative Constitutionalism 6: Conclusion

Adeel Hussain is an Assistant Professor of Legal and Political Theory at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Before joining Leiden University, Adeel clerked at the Court of Appeals in Frankfurt, worked for an international law firm, and advised the Government of Afghanistan on constitutional and administrative reform. His research focuses on jurisprudence, comparative constitutional law, international law, and the global history of legal and political thought, with an emphasis on South Asia and Europe. This is his first monograph.

Offering a striking new perspective on the making of Muslim politics in colonial India, Adeel Hussain argues that law and legal thinking came to comprise its primary site. Rather than sulking in their tents and taking to religion with the establishment of British rule, Muslims deployed the law to shape the colonial state as well as remake themselves into a polity without sovereignty. In the process, Hussain gives us a novel interpretation of political thought in colonial societies.

• 1: Introduction 2: In Search of Vulnerabilities Lost 3: Shahidganj and the Burden of Time 4: Jinnah: A Thinker of Existential Survival 5: Iqbal and Combative Constitutionalism 6: Conclusion