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After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements
around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation
states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national
narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for
their political life. While leadership in India claimed the
anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the
subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a
more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim
history and political tradition from a millennium long history of
cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence.
Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the
complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging
in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping
history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich
picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of
writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while simultaneously
narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state—such
as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the
national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a
"national festival"—providing an illuminating analysis of the
practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history
in the subcontinent.
After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements
around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation
states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national
narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for
their political life. While leadership in India claimed the
anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the
subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a
more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim
history and political tradition from a millennium long history of
cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence.
Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the
complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging
in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping
history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich
picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of
writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while simultaneously
narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state—such
as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the
national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a
"national festival"—providing an illuminating analysis of the
practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history
in the subcontinent.
The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has
been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a
sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and
North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders and
organizations which were opposed to this demand, predicating their
opposition to the League on its understanding of the history and
ideological content of the Muslim nation. This volume takes stock
of multiple narratives about Muslim identity formation in the
context of debates about partition, historicizes those narratives,
and reads them in the light of the larger political milieu of the
period. Focusing on the critiques of the Muslim League, its concept
of the Muslim nation, and the political settlement demanded on its
behalf, it studies how the movement for Pakistan inspired a
contentious, influential conversation on the definition of the
Muslim nation.
While most studies of Shi'i Islam have focused upon Iran or the
Middle East, South Asia is another global region which is home to a
large and influential Shi'i population. This edited volume
establishes the importance of the Indian subcontinent, which has
been profoundly shaped by Shi'i cultures, regimes and populations
throughout its history, for the study of Shi'i Islam in the modern
world. The essays within this volume, all written by leading
scholars of the field, explore various Shi'i communities (both Isna
'Ashari and Isma'ili) in parts of the subcontinent as diverse as
Karachi, Lucknow, Bombay and Hyderabad, as well as South Asian
Shi'i diasporas in East Africa. Drawing from a range of
disciplinary perspectives including history, religious studies,
anthropology and political science, they examine a range of themes
relating to Shi'i belief, practice, piety and belonging, as well as
relations between Shi'i and non-Shi'i communities.
In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi traces the history
of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in
Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the
first scholarly study of the declassified material of the court of
inquiry that produced the Munir-Kiyani report of 1954, and the
proceedings of the national assembly that declared the Ahmadis
non-Muslims through the second constitutional amendment in 1974.
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan
chronicles anti-Ahmadi violence and the legal and administrative
measures adopted against them, and also addresses wider issues of
the politics of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states and
their disputative engagements with ideas of modernity and
citizenship.
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