Poetry of Belonging
Muslim Imaginings of India 1850–1950
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9780190121013
Publication date:
05/02/2020
Hardback
344 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 1645.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190121013
Publication date:
05/02/2020
Hardback
344 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
This book engages with the question of Muslim rootedness in India. It uses various Muslim 'voices' in north India to explore imaginings of the local, regional, and transnational at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Using poetry as an archive and the site of its performance, the musha'irah, as a way of understanding public spaces, the book charts changing understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian. Perhaps this will offer a new way of thinking about these relationships, especially at a time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarising question.
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Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Description
Poetry of Belonging is an exploration of north-Indian Muslim identity through poetry at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Between 1850 and 1950, when precolonial forms of cultural traditions, such as the musha’irah, were undergoing massive transformations to remain relevant, certain Muslim ‘voices’ configured, negotiated, and articulated their imaginings of what it meant to be Muslim.
Using poetry as an archive, the book traces the history of the musha’irah, the site of poetic performance, as a way of understanding public spaces through the changing economic, social, political, and technological contexts of the time. It seeks to locate the changing ideas of watan (homeland) and hubb-e watanī (patriotism) in order to offer new perspectives on how Muslim intellectuals, poets, political leaders, and journalists conceived of and expressed their relationship to India and to the transnational Muslim community.
The volume aims to spark a renegotiation of identity and belonging, especially at a time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarizing question.
About the Author
Ali Khan Mahmudabad is an academic, columnist, and public speaker. He has a specialization in a wide range of subjects involving political, religious, and security-related issues in South Asia as well as the greater part of West Asia (the Middle East). He is currently assistant professor of history and political science at Ashoka University, Sonipat. He writes a fortnightly column for the Urdu daily The Inquilab, apart from also regularly contributing to English and Hindi print and online publications.
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Table of contents
List of Images
Note on Style and Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledegments
Introduction
- The Mushā‘irah in the Nineteenth Century
- Poetry, Politics, and Provinces
- Lineages, Loudspeakers, and Labourers
- Ideas of the Homeland
- Nodes of Identity: The Transnational and the Regional
- The Crossroads of Qaum, Millat, and Watan
Conclusion
Select Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Description
Poetry of Belonging is an exploration of north-Indian Muslim identity through poetry at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Between 1850 and 1950, when precolonial forms of cultural traditions, such as the musha’irah, were undergoing massive transformations to remain relevant, certain Muslim ‘voices’ configured, negotiated, and articulated their imaginings of what it meant to be Muslim.
Using poetry as an archive, the book traces the history of the musha’irah, the site of poetic performance, as a way of understanding public spaces through the changing economic, social, political, and technological contexts of the time. It seeks to locate the changing ideas of watan (homeland) and hubb-e watanī (patriotism) in order to offer new perspectives on how Muslim intellectuals, poets, political leaders, and journalists conceived of and expressed their relationship to India and to the transnational Muslim community.
The volume aims to spark a renegotiation of identity and belonging, especially at a time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarizing question.
About the Author
Ali Khan Mahmudabad is an academic, columnist, and public speaker. He has a specialization in a wide range of subjects involving political, religious, and security-related issues in South Asia as well as the greater part of West Asia (the Middle East). He is currently assistant professor of history and political science at Ashoka University, Sonipat. He writes a fortnightly column for the Urdu daily The Inquilab, apart from also regularly contributing to English and Hindi print and online publications.
Read MoreTable of contents
List of Images
Note on Style and Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledegments
Introduction
- The Mushā‘irah in the Nineteenth Century
- Poetry, Politics, and Provinces
- Lineages, Loudspeakers, and Labourers
- Ideas of the Homeland
- Nodes of Identity: The Transnational and the Regional
- The Crossroads of Qaum, Millat, and Watan
Conclusion
Select Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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