Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032606637 / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str.

India) Assadi Karnataka Muzaffar (University of Mysore

Opis

Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia analyses the colonial and post–colonial documentation and caste classification among Muslims in India, and will be of interest to scholars of religion, Islam, history, politics and sociology of India.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Religion, Caste, and Discourses: An Interface; Chapter 3. Colonialism, Enumeration, and Caste Among Muslims; Chapter 4. Muslim Castes in Census of  Provincial and Presidency Areas; Chapter 5. Census and Caste Among Muslims in South India; Chapter 6. Colonial Narrative on Muslim Thuggs and Criminal Tribes; Chapter 7. Caste in Ethnographic Studies, Gazetteers, and Administrative Records; Chapter 8. Caste, Reservation, and the Identity Politics: After Independence; Chapter 9. Conclusion; Index

O autorze

Muzaffar Assadi is Professor and the Dean of Faculty of Arts, Department of Studies in Political Science, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India. He is the author of a number of books and reports and has written extensively on communalism, agrarian movement and farmer’s suicide, the politics of the state, and identity politics in India.