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Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal - The Making of a Moral Community (Hardcover)
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Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal - The Making of a Moral Community (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA South Asian Series
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This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural
processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a
touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India. The
book argues that the tremendous popularity of the Pakistan movement
in Bengal is to be understood not just in terms of
"communalization" of class politics, or even "separatist" demands
of a religious minority living out anxieties of Hindu political
majoritarianism, but in terms of a distinctively modern idea of
Muslim self and culture which gave primacy to production/labor as
the site where religious, moral, ethical as well as economic value
would be anchored. In telling the story of the formation of a
modern Muslim identity, the book presents the conceptual congruence
between Islam and egalitarianism as a distinctively early twentieth
century phenomenon, and the approach can be viewed as key to
explaining the mass appeal of the desire for Pakistan. A novel
contribution to the study of Bengal and Pakistan's origins, the
book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian
history, the history of colonialism and end of empire, South Asian
studies, including labour studies, Islamic Studies, and Muslim
social and cultural history.
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