Muslims against the Muslim League

Muslims against the Muslim League
Author: Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108621236

The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders and organizations which were opposed to this demand, predicating their opposition to the League on its understanding of the history and ideological content of the Muslim nation. This volume takes stock of multiple narratives about Muslim identity formation in the context of debates about partition, historicizes those narratives, and reads them in the light of the larger political milieu of the period. Focusing on the critiques of the Muslim League, its concept of the Muslim nation, and the political settlement demanded on its behalf, it studies how the movement for Pakistan inspired a contentious, influential conversation on the definition of the Muslim nation.

Muslims against the Muslim League

Muslims against the Muslim League
Author: Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107166632

"Discusses the dynamics of the Indian freedom movement during the 1940s from the perspective of those Muslim leaders and political parties who opposed the idea of a separate state for South Asian Muslims, or whose primary engagement with Muslim League activities treated separatism as marginal to their political agenda"--Provided by publisher.

Creating a New Medina

Creating a New Medina
Author: Venkat Dhulipala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2015-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107052122

This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.

Print and the Urdu Public

Print and the Urdu Public
Author: Megan Eaton Robb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190089393

In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town paper from the margins of society became a key player in Urdu journalism. Published in the isolated market town of Bijnor, Madinah grew to hold influence across North India and the Punjab while navigating complex issues of religious and political identity. In Print and the Urdu Public, Megan Robb uses the previously unexamined perspective of the Madinah to consider Urdu print publics and urban life in South Asia. Through a discursive and material analysis of Madinah, the book explores how Muslims who had settled in ancestral qasbahs, or small towns, used newspapers to facilitate a new public consciousness. The book demonstrates how Madinah connected the Urdu newspaper conversation both explicitly and implicitly with Muslim identity and delineated the boundaries of a Muslim public conversation in a way that emphasized rootedness to local politics and small urban spaces. The case study of this influential but understudied newspaper reveals how a network of journalists with substantial ties to qasbahs produced a discourse self-consciously alternative to the Western-influenced, secularized cities. Megan Robb augments the analysis with evidence from contemporary Urdu, English, and Hindi papers, government records, private diaries, private library holdings, ethnographic interviews, and training materials for newspaper printers. This thoroughly researched volume recovers the erasure of qasbah voices and proclaims the importance of space and time in definitions of the public sphere in South Asia. Print and the Urdu Public demonstrates how an Urdu newspaper published from the margins became central to the Muslim public constituted in the first half of the twentieth century.

The All-India Muslim League, 1906-1947

The All-India Muslim League, 1906-1947
Author: Mary Louise Becker
Publisher: OUP Pakistan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199060146

In this book, the author takes Pakistan as a case study in a search for better definitions of nations and nationalism, arguing that it exhibits the three essential ingredients for a successful national movement. These are a distinctive integrated community, a particular set of circumstances, and purposeful leadership.

The Sole Spokesman

The Sole Spokesman
Author: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521458504

'Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of ... the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review

A History of Bangladesh

A History of Bangladesh
Author: Willem van Schendel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108620337

Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.

Muslim Zion

Muslim Zion
Author: Faisal Devji
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1849042764

Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.