This panel will foreground how Muslim minorities acculturate cooperative networks of solidarity, acceptance, creativity and affect beyond rigid notions of nation, region and sovereignties. In this context we will look at ruptures which persist due to the rigid and restrictive processes of neocolonial and neoliberal regimes and how it continues to shape the lived and material realities of South Asian Muslims across national and diasporic contexts. In particular we will discuss the historical contexts and enduring consequences of the rigid and restrictive processes of colonisation, partition, migration, trade, caste, legalities, and majoritarianism as it intersects with the inter-nation and cross-border movements of Muslims within and beyond South Asia. Importantly, this panel will explore the emotional residue of these movements and its enduring imprint on labour, language, art, music, devotion, rituals, affect, narrative, and image. This panel aims to bring together early career and advanced scholars of Muslim identity to think through the varied constructive possibilities of Muslim solidarities across time, space and media, in the debilitating contemporaneity of rupture, discord and erasure.

keywords: south asia, Muslims, minority identity, transcending borders and nationalism, Muslim solidarities