Resisting Regimes
Myth, Memory, and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity
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9780199467617
Publication date:
06/02/2017
Paperback
320 pages
Price: 550.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199467617
Publication date:
06/02/2017
Paperback
320 pages
Shail Mayaram
Resisting Regimes examines how colonial and princely regimes and the Tablighi Jama’at have been perceived, responded to and resisted by a subject group called the Meos, a community largely based in India and Pakistan. Meo myth and memory counter the statist enunciation of truth and history and denial of identity.
Rights: World Rights
Shail Mayaram
Description
Resisting Regimes examines how colonial and princely regimes and the Tablighi Jama’at have been perceived, responded to and resisted by a subject group called the Meos, a community largely based in India and Pakistan. Meo myth and memory counter the statist enunciation of truth and history and denial of identity. The group located historically between Hinduism and Islam also challenges the theoretical terrain based on the binary categories, ‘Hindu’ and ‘Muslim’, and suggests instead an alternative conception of identity characterized by liminality and fluidity until the tragic denouement culminating in partition, the abduction of women, and the exodus of a large number of Meos to Pakistan.
This paperback edition reviews the reshaping of Meo identity that takes place in a world defined by popular nationalism, ritual sovereignty, contests between Hinduizing and Islamizing religious organizations, and genocidal violence. The new introduction examines fresh theoretical issues and the predicament of the Pakistani Meos.
About the Author
Shail Mayaram is Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.
Shail Mayaram
Table of contents
Note on Transcription and Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction to the Revised Edition: Postcolonial Futures—Mewatis in India and Pakistan
1 Introduction
Map 1: Mewat before Independence
Map 2: Mewat and Surrounding Areas
Nationalism, Kingship and the Other State, Sovereignty and Violence On Ethnic Conflict
2 The Meos of Mewat
Myth, Memory and Silence
Identity and Liminality
3 The Institution of the Modern State: The Princely States of Alwar and Bharatpur
Monarchical Assertion under Jai Singh of Alwar and Kishan Singh of Bharatpur
The Politics of Ritual and Nationalism
Pan Indian Networks: The Arya Samaj, the Hindi Language and Cow Movements
Communal Riot in Alwar City
State versus Community: Claims to Land, Surplus, Forests and Pastures
4 Constructions of the Meo Movement: The Written Record
The Historiography of the Meo Movement
The Meo Question
Constructions of Time
The Princely State Perspective
The British Perspective
The Meo Perspective
5 Contested History and Cultural Reproduction: Myth and Memory of Resistance
Collective Representations of Resistance
Individual Representations of Resistance
Communal Politics, Tabligh, and Meo Narrative in the Post-revolt Period
6 Partition and Violence in Mewat: Rites of Territorial and Political Passage
Politics in the Princely States of Bharatpur and Alwar
Representations of Violence in the Media
Silences in the Representation of the State
The Organization of Violence
Violence and the Community: Myth and Memory of Victimhood and Resistance
Land and Re-territorialization: The Rehabilitation of ‘Refugees’ and the Displacement of ‘Evacuees’
7 The Tablīghī Jamā‘at: The Making of a Transnational Religious Regime On the ‘Jāhil Mewatis’
The Institutional Network
Ideology: The Intra-Islamic Debate between the Barelwis, Deobandis and Sufis
Tablighi Jama‘at, Jamiat ulama-i Hind and the Indian National Congress: Some Implications
8 Myth and Ritual: The Cultural Construction of Contemporary Meo Identity and Community
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
Shail Mayaram
Shail Mayaram
Review
‘Such studies shall be beneficial not only to understand the upsurge in the rest of India, but the evolution of the world tomorrow in which each ethnic group shall demand a place with dignity within the regional, national and world order.’
Syed Shahabuddin
‘Mayaram deserves to be complimented for the deft combination of archival and oral sources in producing an impressive work of political anthropology.’
N. Jayaram
‘Whether contemporary historians agree with her or not, Mayaram nonetheless succeeds in driving home a point: neither can a well planned act of violence exterminate a people nor can anyone wipe out the identity of a community.’
Shams Afif Siddiqi
‘This work should be considered as a model of local history, even if it is also much more than that… If there is one lesson to draw from this remarkable study, it is surely that whatever may seem to be the appeal of the notion of cultural “liminality”, it is certainly not something one could afford to advocate too readily for others, especially when the people concerned are in a weak position in society.’
Denis Vidal
Description
Resisting Regimes examines how colonial and princely regimes and the Tablighi Jama’at have been perceived, responded to and resisted by a subject group called the Meos, a community largely based in India and Pakistan. Meo myth and memory counter the statist enunciation of truth and history and denial of identity. The group located historically between Hinduism and Islam also challenges the theoretical terrain based on the binary categories, ‘Hindu’ and ‘Muslim’, and suggests instead an alternative conception of identity characterized by liminality and fluidity until the tragic denouement culminating in partition, the abduction of women, and the exodus of a large number of Meos to Pakistan.
This paperback edition reviews the reshaping of Meo identity that takes place in a world defined by popular nationalism, ritual sovereignty, contests between Hinduizing and Islamizing religious organizations, and genocidal violence. The new introduction examines fresh theoretical issues and the predicament of the Pakistani Meos.
About the Author
Shail Mayaram is Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.
Reviews
‘Such studies shall be beneficial not only to understand the upsurge in the rest of India, but the evolution of the world tomorrow in which each ethnic group shall demand a place with dignity within the regional, national and world order.’
Syed Shahabuddin
‘Mayaram deserves to be complimented for the deft combination of archival and oral sources in producing an impressive work of political anthropology.’
N. Jayaram
‘Whether contemporary historians agree with her or not, Mayaram nonetheless succeeds in driving home a point: neither can a well planned act of violence exterminate a people nor can anyone wipe out the identity of a community.’
Shams Afif Siddiqi
‘This work should be considered as a model of local history, even if it is also much more than that… If there is one lesson to draw from this remarkable study, it is surely that whatever may seem to be the appeal of the notion of cultural “liminality”, it is certainly not something one could afford to advocate too readily for others, especially when the people concerned are in a weak position in society.’
Denis Vidal
Table of contents
Note on Transcription and Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction to the Revised Edition: Postcolonial Futures—Mewatis in India and Pakistan
1 Introduction
Map 1: Mewat before Independence
Map 2: Mewat and Surrounding Areas
Nationalism, Kingship and the Other State, Sovereignty and Violence On Ethnic Conflict
2 The Meos of Mewat
Myth, Memory and Silence
Identity and Liminality
3 The Institution of the Modern State: The Princely States of Alwar and Bharatpur
Monarchical Assertion under Jai Singh of Alwar and Kishan Singh of Bharatpur
The Politics of Ritual and Nationalism
Pan Indian Networks: The Arya Samaj, the Hindi Language and Cow Movements
Communal Riot in Alwar City
State versus Community: Claims to Land, Surplus, Forests and Pastures
4 Constructions of the Meo Movement: The Written Record
The Historiography of the Meo Movement
The Meo Question
Constructions of Time
The Princely State Perspective
The British Perspective
The Meo Perspective
5 Contested History and Cultural Reproduction: Myth and Memory of Resistance
Collective Representations of Resistance
Individual Representations of Resistance
Communal Politics, Tabligh, and Meo Narrative in the Post-revolt Period
6 Partition and Violence in Mewat: Rites of Territorial and Political Passage
Politics in the Princely States of Bharatpur and Alwar
Representations of Violence in the Media
Silences in the Representation of the State
The Organization of Violence
Violence and the Community: Myth and Memory of Victimhood and Resistance
Land and Re-territorialization: The Rehabilitation of ‘Refugees’ and the Displacement of ‘Evacuees’
7 The Tablīghī Jamā‘at: The Making of a Transnational Religious Regime On the ‘Jāhil Mewatis’
The Institutional Network
Ideology: The Intra-Islamic Debate between the Barelwis, Deobandis and Sufis
Tablighi Jama‘at, Jamiat ulama-i Hind and the Indian National Congress: Some Implications
8 Myth and Ritual: The Cultural Construction of Contemporary Meo Identity and Community
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
