MIRRORING THE FADING INDO-ISLAMIC SAGA IN AHMAD ALI’S TWILIGHT IN DELHI

Abstract

The subcontinent English novel written during colonial India broadly addresses the issues of culture, politics, religion, and race. In response to the rising question of the subcontinent’s Muslim community during the 1940s, Ahmad Ali’s Twilight in Delhi explores the diminishing Muslim civilization in India, locating Delhi as the center of the collective Muslim consciousness in India. This article investigates how Twilight has posited the glory of the Muslim ways of life by showing glimpses of the eclectic Muslim society through Sufi Islam, arguing further how the Delhiwallah’s nostalgia for the glorious Muslim Past in India has turned into a solid religious and cultural resistance against the British Imperialism.