Islam and Nationalism in India: South Indian Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781138493391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

M. T. Ansari

Opis

This book traces the spectral presence of Islam across narratives to note that difference and diversity, demographic as well as cultural, can be espoused rather than excised or exorcized. Focusing on Malabar and drawing mostly on Malayalam sources, the author investigates the question of Islam from various angles by constituting an archive comprising popular, administrative, academic, and literary discourses. This book will be of interest to scholars of modern Indian history, political science, literary and cultural studies, and Islamic studies.

Spis treści

Part I: "Two Circles of Equal Size" 1. "An Impossible Factor": Ali’s Autobiographical Fragment 2. Muslim Responses in Colonial India 3. Questions of Community Part II: Malabar Contra Memory 4. Refiguring the Fanatic: Malabar, 1836-1921 5. Memoirs of the Malabar Rebellion Part III: Literary Nationalism in Malayalam 6. "Higuita" and the Politics of Representation 7. An-Other: Indulekha and The Jewel of Malabar 8. All Too In-Human: Chemmeen and Naalukettu

O autorze

M.T. Ansari is Professor at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, India. He has received fellowships awarded by the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago, USA, and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, India.