The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition

ISBN-13: 9780198887638 / Twarda / 2023 / 336 str.

Recenzje

Sohal studies the political ideas of three leading Muslim nationalists - Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and Abdul Ghaffar Khan - which he feels have been ignored by historians. These men, who all came from Muslim majority areas of British India, drew confidence from the sheer numbers of Muslims in the subcontinent both to oppose the separatism of Jinnah's All-India Muslim League and to support the drive to establish a secular Indian republic. This is a deeply learned book, which embraces many Muslim voices in addition to the main three. It would always be a major intervention in Indian political thought, but is particularly so now when Hindu nationalism has established an unprecedented hegemony in India.

O autorze

An intellectual historian of modern India and Pakistan, Amar Sohal completed his DPhil in History at Merton College, Oxford. Now an Early-Career Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his research focuses on anti-colonial nationalism, religious politics, and the secular state. His writing has been published in leading academic journals: Modern Intellectual History, Global Intellectual History, and South Asia. He has also scripted and presented an hour-long documentary titled Azad and Jinnah: A Political Rivalry in Late Colonial India. He tweets @sohalamarsingh