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Islam and Nationalism in India - South Indian contexts (Paperback)
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Islam and Nationalism in India - South Indian contexts (Paperback)
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
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Islam in India, as elsewhere, continues to be seen as a remainder
in its refusal to "conform" to national and international
secular-modern norms. Such a general perception has also had a
tremendous impact on the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, who as
individuals and communities have been shaped and transformed over
centuries of socio-political and historical processes, by eroding
their world-view and steadily erasing their life-worlds. This book
traces the spectral presence of Islam across narratives to note
that difference and diversity, demographic as well as cultural, can
be espoused rather than excised or exorcized. Focusing on Malabar -
home to the Mappila Muslim community in Kerala, South India - and
drawing mostly on Malayalam sources, the author investigates the
question of Islam from various angles by constituting an archive
comprising popular, administrative, academic, and literary
discourses. The author contends that an uncritical insistence on
unity has led to a formation in which "minor" subjects embody an
excess of identity, in contrast to the Hindu-citizen whose identity
seemingly coincides with the national. This has led to Muslims
being the source of a deep-seated anxiety for secular nationalism
and the targets of a resurgent Hindutva in that they expose the
fault-lines of a geographically and socio-culturally unified
nation. An interdisciplinary study of Islam in India from the South
Indian context, this book will be of interest to scholars of modern
Indian history, political science, literary and cultural studies,
and Islamic studies.
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