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Making a Muslim - Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century North India (Hardcover)
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Making a Muslim - Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century North India (Hardcover)
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Using primarily Urdu sources from the nineteenth century, this book
allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous,
complex and often contradictory forms, which emerged in colonial
North India after 1857. Allowing the self-representation of
Muslimness and its manifestations to emerge, it contrasts how the
colonial British 'made Muslims' very differently compared to how
the community envisaged themselves. A key argument made here
contests the general sense of the narrative of lamentation, decay,
decline, and a sense of self-pity and ruination, by proposing a
different condition, that of zillat, a condition which gave rise to
much self-reflection resulting in action, even if it was in the
form of writing and expression. By questioning how and when a
Muslim community emerged in colonial India, the book unsettles the
teleological explanation of the Partition of India and the making
of Pakistan.
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