1st Edition
Self and Sovereignty Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850
By Ayesha Jalal
Copyright 2000
654 Pages
by
Routledge
652 Pages
by
Routledge
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Self and Sovereignty surveys the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period. Commencing in colonial times, this book explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of the Muslim individual and the community of Islam has been reconfigured over time. Self and Sovereignty examines... Read more
Lists of Maps, Preface, List of Abbreviations, 1. The Muslim Self and the Loss of Sovereignty: Individual and Community Before 1858, 2. Forging a Muslim Community: Press, Poetry and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century, 3. Common Languages, Contested Scripts, Conflicted Communities: Shifting Identities of Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi, 4. Muslims as a Legal and Political Category: Subjecthood in Theory and Practice, 5. Identity and Sovereignty in Muslim Consciousness: The Khilafat Crescent and the Indian Charkha, 6. Contested Sovereignty in the Punjab: The Interplay of Formal and Informal Politics, 7. Between Region and Nation: The Missing Centre, 8. At the Crossroads of ‘Pakistan’: Muslim Imaginings and Territorial Sovereignty, 9. Lost Tracks to Unity: Confrontation, Compromise and Civil War, 10. Epilogue An Unhealing Wound: Paradoxes of Muslim Identity, Sovereignty and Citizenship, Glossary, Select Bibliography, Index
Biography
Ayesha Jalal
'Jalal has produced an outstanding book, which brings a new level of understanding to the recent history of that third of the world's Muslims who live in South Asia.' - Francis Robinson, Asian Affairs February 2002
