عنوان

Democracy on a Minor Note: The All-India Majlis-e-Ittehād'ul Muslimān and its Hyderabadi Muslim Publics

شماره

TL49587

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Democracy on a Minor Note: The All-India Majlis-e-Ittehād'ul Muslimān and its Hyderabadi Muslim Publics

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Shefali Jha

نام ساير پديدآوران

Mazzarella, William; Agrama, Hussein

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Chicago

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2017

نام خاص و کميت اثر

371

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Chakrabarty, Dipesh

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23394-0

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Anthropology

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Chicago

امتياز متن

2017

متن يادداشت

'Democracy on a Minor Note' is divided into two parts. The four chapters in Part I lay out what I call a performative history of the Muslim public in the princely state of Hyderabad, a state bound to the British colonial establishment by that notoriously ambiguous relation of subordination called paramountcy. Using material as diverse as memoirs, novels, reportage, colonial documents, even an old unpublished dissertation, these chapters deal with the period roughly coinciding with the reign (1911- 1948) of the monarch, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad. They show how the internal contradictions of the state's drive toward administrative modernization coupled with political stability generated in the late 1930s new kinds of sites and sociality for a Muslim public to evolve. The growing gap between the eponymous capital city and the districts that sustained its vibrant political life, as well as the influence of nationalist politics on the subcontinent manifested, I show, in the growth of the Muslim political party known as the Ittehad-ul-Muslimin and rival forms of politics such as the Hyderabad State Congress, Hindu Mahasabha, Arya Samaj and Communist Party. By attending carefully to the imbrications of these rivalries and their socio-historical location within Hyderabadi society, I argue that the rise of the Ittehad in reaction to the politics of Hindu majoritarianism, was based on a secularized space of historical understanding that enabled the reification of Islam and of Muslim history of which Hyderabadi Muslims became subjects. With the waning of monarchical charisma, this space was defined and made visible by charismatic individual leaders, like Nawab Bahadur Yar Jang, the first president of the Ittehad, whose ability to inspire love and devotion mediated between the old aristocratic sociality and the new publics of the city, and eventually, the districts. The inauguration of the nation-state changed radically the terrain of this political space, however, culminating in the 1948 invasion of Hyderabad by the Indian army, provoked both by a successful Communist insurgency and by the increasingly violent rhetoric and action of the Ittehad leader, Qasim Razvi. Through my analysis, I demonstrate the thoroughly historical logics of charismatic authority, attached by the force of history and politics to what can be called the compulsions of rhetorical finesse.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social research; Islamic Studies; Modern history; South Asian Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Democracy;India;Minority politics;Secularism;South Asia

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Almelhes, Sultan

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mazzarella, William; Agrama, Hussein

تقسيم فرعي

Anthropology

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

The University of Chicago

شماره بازیابی

1957416890; 10601083

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y