India, June 20 -- The first part of this series looked at the overall share and regional distribution of India's Muslim MLAs and MPs. It showed that Muslim representation is disproportionately skewed in pockets with higher population share of Muslims. What about the relation between politics and Muslim representation though?

This is the second of a two-part series based on an HT database of all-Muslim MPs and MLAs in India. The first part looked at the representation of Muslims across states and over time.

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