Creating a new Medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India

Author/Creator:

Dhulipala, Venkat, author

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

Creating a new Medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India / Venkat Dhulipala

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

All-India Muslim League--History--20th century
Elections--India--Uttar Pradesh--History--20th century
Pakistan movement--History
Nationalism--Pakistan--History--20th century
Power (Social sciences)--Pakistan--History--20th century
Islam and politics--Pakistan--History--20th century
Postcolonialism--Pakistan--History--20th century
Pakistan--Politics and government--20th century
India, North--Politics and government--20th century
Uttar Pradesh (India)--Politics and government--20th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Nationalists, communalists and the 1937 provincial elections -- Muslim mass contacts and the rise of the Muslim League -- Two constitutional lawyers from Bombay and the debate over Pakistan in the public sphere -- The Muslim League and the idea of Pakistan in the United Provinces -- Ulama at the forefront of politics : three critiques of Pakistan -- Urdu press, public opinion, and controversies over Pakistan -- Fusing Islam and state power : Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Pakistan as the new Medina -- The referendum on Pakistan -- Epilogue: The aftermath of the partition.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India. It argues that Pakistan was not a simply a vague idea that serendipitously emerged as a nation-state, but was popularly imagined as a sovereign Islamic State, a new Medina, as some called it. In this regard, it was envisaged as the harbinger of Islam's renewal and rise in the twentieth century, the new leader and protector of the global community of Muslims, and a worthy successor to the defunct Turkish Caliphate. The book also specifically foregrounds the critical role played by Deobandi ulama in articulating this imagined national community with an awareness of Pakistan's global historical significance.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 530 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

General Note:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937263965902486

ISBN:

1-316-25839-4
1-316-25840-8
1-316-25841-6
1-316-61537-5
1-316-25842-4
1-107-28038-9
1-316-25843-2
1-316-25845-9
1-316-25844-0