Ayesha Jalal

Self and Sovereignty

Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Self and Sovereignty" explores the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonization and the partition period. Commencing in colonial times, Jalal explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of the Muslim individual and the community of Islam have been reconfigured over time. She examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the individual, regional, class and cultural differences that have shaped the discourse and politics of Muslim identity. As well as fascinating discussion of political and religious movements, culture and art, this book includes analysis of: -press, poetry and politics of late nineteenth century India -the politics of language and identity - Hindu, Urdu and Punjabi -Muslim identity, cultural difference and nationalism -the Punjab and the politics of Union and Disunion -the creation of Pakistan Covering a period of immense upheaval and sometimes-devastating violence, this work is an important and enlightening insight into the history of Muslims in South Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 654
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 159mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 935g
• ISBN-13: 9780415220781
• ISBN-10: 0415220785
• Artikelnr.: 22217626

Autorenporträt

Ayesha Jalal

Inhaltsangabe

Lists of Maps
Preface
List of Abbreviations
1. The Muslim Self and the Loss of Sovereignty: Individual and Community Before 1858
2. Forging a Muslim Community: Press
Poetry and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century
3. Common Languages
Contested Scripts
Conflicted Communities: Shifting Identities of Urdu
Hindi and Punjabi
4. Muslims as a Legal and Political Category: Subjecthood in Theory and Practice
5. Identity and Sovereignty in Muslim Consciousness: The Khilafat Crescent and the Indian Charkha
6. Contested Sovereignty in the Punjab: The Interplay of Formal and Informal Politics
7. Between Region and Nation: The Missing Centre
8. At the Crossroads of 'Pakistan': Muslim Imaginings and Territorial Sovereignty
9. Lost Tracks to Unity: Confrontation
Compromise and Civil War
10. Epilogue An Unhealing Wound: Paradoxes of Muslim Identity
Sovereignty and Citizenship
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index