Identity of a Muslim Family in Colonial Bengal: Between Memories and History

ISBN-13: 9781433183195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 210 str.

Mohammad Rashiduzzaman

Opis

Blended with the author's own family remembrances and diverse sources, this is a meticulous, insightful and comprehensive portrait of a rural Muslim family in a historical context.

Spis treści

Preface: Ways and Means of the Narrative - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Threads of Memories! - Weaving Contemporary and Comparable Memories - A Family Maverick: Existential Slog and Identity Encounters! - Nuri: A Virtuous Woman with a Voice of Her Own! - Achkan/Sherwani, Fez, Lungi or Dhoti? Identity and Dress - The Incredible Rezu Chacha: Quest for Sufism in a Rural Community? - Kaleidoscopic Rural Elites: Rai Sahebs/Khandans/Beparis? - Muslim Identity Imaginations: "Never Apologize for Being a Muslim!" - Eclectic Historiography: "Demise of Memories Is the End of History!" - Memories: A Cherag on the Edge of History! - Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Mohammad Rashiduzzaman, M.A., Ph.D., a retired academic and Professor Emeritus in Political Science at Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA, is a recognized scholar with a range of publications on British India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Durham, England in 1964; he taught at the University of Dhaka, now Bangladesh for a decade before he came to Columbia University for post-doctoral work from 1970 to 1973. His previous works include The Central Legislature in British India, 1921-47: Parliamentary Experiences Under the Raj (Peter Lang, 2020), Politics and Administration in the Local Councils: A Study of Union and District Councils in East Pakistan (1968), and Pakistan: A Study of Government and Politics (1967). He also authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on Pakistan, Bangladesh, Muslim identity, and political Islam.