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Creating a new Medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India / Venkat Dhulipala

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 530 illustrations, mapsISBN:
  • 9781316616314
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.9103 5 V559 C 101967
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Contents:
Nationalists', communalists' and the 1937 provincial elections -- Muslim mass contacts' and the rise of the Muslim League -- Two constitutional lawyers from Bombay and the debate over Pakistan in the public sphere -- The Muslim League and the idea of Pakistan in the United Provinces -- The Ulama at the forefront of politics : three critiques of Pakistan from the United Provinces -- Urdu press, public opinion, and the controversies over Pakistan -- Fusing Islam and state power : Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Pakistan as the new Medina -- The referendum on Pakistan : the elections of 1945-46 -- Epilogue.
Scope and content: "Discusses the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism as well as our current understanding of the roots of its postcolonial identity crisis"--
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954.82 C448 H 102334 History and Culture of Tamil Nadu : 954.82 N1315 M 102138 Mahabalipuram : 954.87 An53 H 102126 Hampi / 954.9103 5 V559 C 101967 Creating a new Medina : 954.9205 D2805 B 101987 Bangladesh : 959.053 N59 G 102157 A Gentleman's Word : 962.02092 K518 I 102128 Ibn Hajar

This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of U.P. (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India. It argues that Pakistan was not simply a vague idea that serendipitously emerged as a nation-state, but was popularly imagined as a sovereign Islamic State, a new Medina, as some called it. In this regard, it was envisaged as the harbinger of Islam’s renewal and rise in the twentieth century, the new leader and protector of the global community of Muslims, and a worthy successor to the defunct Turkish Caliphate.

The book specifically foregrounds the critical role played by Deobandi ulama in articulating this imagined national community with an awareness of Pakistan’s global historical significance. It demonstrates how these ulama collaborated with the Muslim League leadership and forged a new political vocabulary fusing ideas of Islamic nationhood and modern state. It, therefore, challenges three principal strands in India’s Partition historiography: scholarship on elite politics that largely sees Pakistan’s emergence as the result of breakdown of constitutional negotiations between the British government, the leaders of the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress; subaltern histories that argue that Pakistan was a vague but emotive religious symbol that found overwhelming popular support without an awareness of its meaning or implications; and finally narratives which argue that Jinnah led a secular nationalist movement to create Pakistan as a liberal democratic State.

Nationalists', communalists' and the 1937 provincial elections -- Muslim mass contacts' and the rise of the Muslim League -- Two constitutional lawyers from Bombay and the debate over Pakistan in the public sphere -- The Muslim League and the idea of Pakistan in the United Provinces -- The Ulama at the forefront of politics : three critiques of Pakistan from the United Provinces -- Urdu press, public opinion, and the controversies over Pakistan -- Fusing Islam and state power : Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Pakistan as the new Medina -- The referendum on Pakistan : the elections of 1945-46 -- Epilogue.

"Discusses the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism as well as our current understanding of the roots of its postcolonial identity crisis"--

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