Poetry of Belonging
Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950
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9780190121013
Publication date:
04/08/2020
Hardback
344 pages
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ISBN:
9780190121013
Publication date:
04/08/2020
Hardback
344 pages
Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad
This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian, given the socio-political exigencies of the time.
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Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Description
This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian, given the socio-political exigencies of the time. Specifically, a history of the public space of poetry will be presented and half of the book will chart a history of the mushairah (poetic symposium) over this period. In doing so it will analyse the multiple ways in which this space adapted to the changing economic, social, political and technological contexts of the time. The second half of the book will present a history of the ideas that were often articulated in the space of the mushairah and changing notions of the watan (homeland) amongst various Muslim individuals will be analysed. In particular the book will seek to locate changing ideas of hubb-e watan? (patriotism) in order to offer new perspectives on how Muslim intellectuals, poets, political leaders and journalists conceived of and expressed their relationship to India and to the trans-national Muslim community.
Ali Khan Mahmudabad teaches history and political science at Ashoka University, india. He is a historian, political scientist, writer, columnist, and an occasional poet.He completed his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK).He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and he writes a fortnightly column for the Urdu national daily, Inqilab and as well as writing for a number of English language magazines and newspapers.
Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Table of contents
Table of contents
List of Images
Note on Style and Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledegments
Introduction
The Mushairah in the Nineteenth Century
Poetry, Politics, and Provinces
Lineages, Loudspeakers, and Labourers
Ideas of the Homeland
Nodes of Identity: The Transnational and the Regional
The Crossroads of Qaum, Millat, and Watan
Conclusion
Select Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Features
- The book is topical in the sense that it engages with questions that are being asked widely across media, academia, in policy circles and indeed by governments
- Those interested in the social and cultural history of Urdu and Islam in North India will find this useful. The educated general reader will also be interested in the questions about belonging and rootedness amongst Muslims at a time when loyalties to India are the subjects under debate in prime time news.
Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Review
"Poetry of Belonging interlaces, in a scholarly and readable fashion,many critical conversations spanning various disciplines, including history, religious studies and literary studies, to tell complicated stories of Muslims' conceptions of being and belonging in South Asia between 1850-1950....Mahmudabad ends his book not in his own words but with Mahbub's couplet : "I will gather twigs once again from this garden to build my nest/ For my home was set ablaze and I have all the time in the world." This endearing choice—to give the last word to a poet—captures well the genuine love for poetry that radiates throughout the book." -- Abdul Manan Bhat, University of Pennsylvania, The Marginalia Review of Books
Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Description
This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian, given the socio-political exigencies of the time. Specifically, a history of the public space of poetry will be presented and half of the book will chart a history of the mushairah (poetic symposium) over this period. In doing so it will analyse the multiple ways in which this space adapted to the changing economic, social, political and technological contexts of the time. The second half of the book will present a history of the ideas that were often articulated in the space of the mushairah and changing notions of the watan (homeland) amongst various Muslim individuals will be analysed. In particular the book will seek to locate changing ideas of hubb-e watan? (patriotism) in order to offer new perspectives on how Muslim intellectuals, poets, political leaders and journalists conceived of and expressed their relationship to India and to the trans-national Muslim community.
Ali Khan Mahmudabad teaches history and political science at Ashoka University, india. He is a historian, political scientist, writer, columnist, and an occasional poet.He completed his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK).He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and he writes a fortnightly column for the Urdu national daily, Inqilab and as well as writing for a number of English language magazines and newspapers.
Table of contents
Table of contents
List of Images
Note on Style and Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledegments
Introduction
The Mushairah in the Nineteenth Century
Poetry, Politics, and Provinces
Lineages, Loudspeakers, and Labourers
Ideas of the Homeland
Nodes of Identity: The Transnational and the Regional
The Crossroads of Qaum, Millat, and Watan
Conclusion
Select Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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