Minority Pasts
Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur
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Publication date:
07/07/2022
Hardback
336 pages
Dr. Razak Khan
Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur—the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United Provinces and a city that is pejoratively labelled as the centre of “Muslim votebank” politics in contemporary Uttar Pradesh. The book highlights the importance of locality and emotions in shaping Muslim identities, politics, and belonging in Rampur. The book shows that we need to move beyond such homogeneous categories of nation and region, in order to comprehend local dynamics that allow a better and closer understanding of the historical re-negotiations of politics and identities by Muslims in South Asia.
This is the first comprehensive English-language monograph on the local history and politics of Rampur princely state, based on Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, and English archives and oral histories of Rampuris. The book provides insights into the various facets of the political, economic, religious, literary, socio-cultural, and affective history of Rampur and Rampuris in India and Pakistan.
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Dr. Razak Khan
Description
Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur—the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United Provinces and a city that is pejoratively labelled as the centre of “Muslim votebank” politics in contemporary Uttar Pradesh. The book highlights the importance of locality and emotions in shaping Muslim identities, politics, and belonging in Rampur. The book shows that we need to move beyond such homogeneous categories of nation and region, in order to comprehend local dynamics that allow a better and closer understanding of the historical re-negotiations of politics and identities by Muslims in South Asia.
This is the first comprehensive English-language monograph on the local history and politics of Rampur princely state, based on Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, and English archives and oral histories of Rampuris. The book provides insights into the various facets of the political, economic, religious, literary, socio-cultural, and affective history of Rampur and Rampuris in India and Pakistan.
About the author:
Dr. Razak Khan is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, Germany. He researches and writes about the socio-cultural, intellectual, and affective history of South Asian Muslims in Modern India and Germany. He has published articles and edited special issues in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill, 2015) and Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Duke University Press, 2020). He recently also edited The Incomparable Festival (Penguin, 2021).
Dr. Razak Khan
Table of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Oasis in the Desert: Rampur as a "Muslim Princely State" in the Aftermath of 1857
2. Courtly Modernity: Tradition, Reform, and the Politics of "Muslim Culture"
3. Princely Progress: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Cultures of "Muslim Politics"
4. Locality, Genre, and Self-Definitions of Rampuris
5.Princely Past, Subaltern Present: Memory, History, and Emotions
Epilogue: A City Named Rampur in the "Muslim Belt" of Uttar Pradesh
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Dr. Razak Khan
Review
In an age when history writing on South Asia often turns adversarially political, especially in the context of reading and re-evaluating Muslim presence in India, one can only marvel at the plethora of allusions inherent in the title of Razak Khan’s book, Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur. While plural in the pasts points to a whole range of pasts, defined in a variety of ways and existing despite homogenizing tendencies of the pan-regionally produced accounts, minority implies that those pasts relate to minority communities: religious, geographical, class or gender-based, etc. Minority Pasts as a phrase entail the existence of many minorities and many pasts, peripheral, local, not important in the larger scheme of things. Rampur locates them in a specific place, and princely—in specific time space. Locality combined with emotions and belonging hint at a discourse grounded in identity politics hinging on affect, thus making for affective community tied by bonds reaching over time and space.
Maria Puri- Cracow Indological Studies
Although Minority Pasts places Rampur under a specific research lens, the methodology used by Khan could easily be applied to other cities in contemporary India. The topics discussed in the book force us to reassess how we perceive the modern inhabitants of cities whose social groups allegiances have been fractured by the displacements following1857 and 1947. While Minority Pasts addresses a post-1857 Rohilla society, the broader study of Rohilla culture and history still offers readers access into an untouched area of scholarship that is fruitful to furthering explorations, particularly for the decades following the defeat of the Rohillas by the British in 1774.
Simon Daisley
Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies Volume 9, Issue 1. July 2024, pp. 145-147
Regardless, the admirable multi-lingual proficiency of Razak Khan and his aptitude to draw out information from Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi and English archives, not to forget the oral histories of the Rampuris, make the book a noteworthy study of the diversity of histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur.
Meena Bhargava – The Book Review
Dr. Razak Khan
Description
Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur—the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United Provinces and a city that is pejoratively labelled as the centre of “Muslim votebank” politics in contemporary Uttar Pradesh. The book highlights the importance of locality and emotions in shaping Muslim identities, politics, and belonging in Rampur. The book shows that we need to move beyond such homogeneous categories of nation and region, in order to comprehend local dynamics that allow a better and closer understanding of the historical re-negotiations of politics and identities by Muslims in South Asia.
This is the first comprehensive English-language monograph on the local history and politics of Rampur princely state, based on Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, and English archives and oral histories of Rampuris. The book provides insights into the various facets of the political, economic, religious, literary, socio-cultural, and affective history of Rampur and Rampuris in India and Pakistan.
About the author:
Dr. Razak Khan is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, Germany. He researches and writes about the socio-cultural, intellectual, and affective history of South Asian Muslims in Modern India and Germany. He has published articles and edited special issues in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill, 2015) and Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Duke University Press, 2020). He recently also edited The Incomparable Festival (Penguin, 2021).
Table of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Oasis in the Desert: Rampur as a "Muslim Princely State" in the Aftermath of 1857
2. Courtly Modernity: Tradition, Reform, and the Politics of "Muslim Culture"
3. Princely Progress: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Cultures of "Muslim Politics"
4. Locality, Genre, and Self-Definitions of Rampuris
5.Princely Past, Subaltern Present: Memory, History, and Emotions
Epilogue: A City Named Rampur in the "Muslim Belt" of Uttar Pradesh
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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