عنوان

Fractured identities: Comparing Muslim-ness and Shia-ness in 20th century India

Number

TL48822

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Fractured identities: Comparing Muslim-ness and Shia-ness in 20th century India

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Aseem Hasnain

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Kurzman, Charles

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

353

Text of Note

Committee members: Andrews, Kenneth; Caren, Neal; Freitag, Sandria; Perrin, Andrew

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-81052-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Sociology

Body granting the degree

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

The key question that this dissertation asks is: how did a prominent Shia collective identity form and was sustained in Lucknow over the twentieth century, while a similar phenomenon failed to take place in Hyderabad, a comparable city in India. The period that I covered starts in 1904 and ends in 1998, spanning almost the whole of the twentieth century. I divided this period into three chapters, each of which focused on a specific repertoire of contention that was used in collective identity formation. The first chapter shows how public rituals, particularly their redefinition, can contextualize the formation or reinvention of collective identities. Chapter two focuses on protest campaigns to show their role in consolidating collective identities, and chapter three analyzes riots as a strategy for sustaining collective identities. However, the common thread that runs across the three chapters is the role of community based elites; elites connected with the state; their interactions and partnerships; and the role of the state, which together emphasized specific collective identities as salient in either city.

Islamic Studies; Sociology; Ethnic studies; South Asian Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Collective identity;Elections;India;Sectarianism;Shia;Violence

Islam, Shariful

Kurzman, Charles

Subdivision

Sociology

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Call Number

1805884507; 10119861

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[Thesis]

276903

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