Amar Sohal

The Muslim Secular

Parity and the Politics of India's Partition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198887638
• ISBN-10: 0198887639
• Artikelnr.: 68046300

Autorenporträt

An intellectual historian of modern India and Pakistan, Amar Sohal completed his DPhil in History at Merton College, Oxford. Now an Early-Career Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his research focuses on anti-colonial nationalism, religious politics, and the secular state. His writing has been published in leading academic journals: Modern Intellectual History, Global Intellectual History, and South Asia. He has also scripted and presented an hour-long documentary titled Azad and Jinnah: A Political Rivalry in Late Colonial India. He tweets @sohalamarsingh

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I INHERITING HINDUSTAN: ABUL KALAM AZAD AND THE CONGRESS MUSLIMS
1: Secularism as Culture
2: The Indian Intoxicant
PART II BEYOND THE REGION: INDIA IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SHEIKH ABDULLAH AND ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN
3: A Three-Nation Theory
4: An Ethical Country
Conclusion