Muslim Belonging in Secular India

Muslim Belonging in Secular India

Negotiating Citizenship in Postcolonial Hyderabad

Sherman, Taylor C. (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Cambridge University Press

08/2015

211

Dura

Inglês

9781107095076

15 a 20 dias

In this thoughtful study, Sherman examines the experience of some of India's most prominent Muslim communities in the early postcolonial period. Using the princely state of Hyderabad as a case study, Sherman surveys early government policies and popular strategies that have shaped the history of Muslims in India since 1947.
1. Introduction; 2. Moral economies of communal violence and refugee rehabilitation; 3. Unwinding Hyderabad's pan-Islamic networks; 4. Majority rule versus Mulki Rule: government service and the Hindu majority; 5. Secular Muslim politics in a democratic age; 6. From the language of the bazaar to a minority language: linguistic reorganisation in Hyderabad state and the fate of Urdu; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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