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" Democracy on a Minor Note: The All-India Majlis-e-Ittehād'ul Muslimān and its Hyderabadi Muslim Publics "
Shefali Jha
Mazzarella, William; Agrama, Hussein
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804751
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TL49587
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1957416890; 10601083
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Almelhes, Sultan
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Democracy on a Minor Note: The All-India Majlis-e-Ittehād'ul Muslimān and its Hyderabadi Muslim Publics\ Shefali JhaMazzarella, William; Agrama, Hussein
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The University of Chicago
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Anthropology
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2017
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371
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Committee members: Chakrabarty, Dipesh
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23394-0
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‘Democracy on a Minor Note’ is divided into two parts. The four chapters in Part I lay out what I call a performative history of the Muslim public in the princely state of Hyderabad, a state bound to the British colonial establishment by that notoriously ambiguous relation of subordination called paramountcy. Using material as diverse as memoirs, novels, reportage, colonial documents, even an old unpublished dissertation, these chapters deal with the period roughly coinciding with the reign (1911- 1948) of the monarch, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad. They show how the internal contradictions of the state’s drive toward administrative modernization coupled with political stability generated in the late 1930s new kinds of sites and sociality for a Muslim public to evolve. The growing gap between the eponymous capital city and the districts that sustained its vibrant political life, as well as the influence of nationalist politics on the subcontinent manifested, I show, in the growth of the Muslim political party known as the Ittehad-ul-Muslimin and rival forms of politics such as the Hyderabad State Congress, Hindu Mahasabha, Arya Samaj and Communist Party. By attending carefully to the imbrications of these rivalries and their socio-historical location within Hyderabadi society, I argue that the rise of the Ittehad in reaction to the politics of Hindu majoritarianism, was based on a secularized space of historical understanding that enabled the reification of Islam and of Muslim history of which Hyderabadi Muslims became subjects. With the waning of monarchical charisma, this space was defined and made visible by charismatic individual leaders, like Nawab Bahadur Yar Jang, the first president of the Ittehad, whose ability to inspire love and devotion mediated between the old aristocratic sociality and the new publics of the city, and eventually, the districts. The inauguration of the nation-state changed radically the terrain of this political space, however, culminating in the 1948 invasion of Hyderabad by the Indian army, provoked both by a successful Communist insurgency and by the increasingly violent rhetoric and action of the Ittehad leader, Qasim Razvi. Through my analysis, I demonstrate the thoroughly historical logics of charismatic authority, attached by the force of history and politics to what can be called the compulsions of rhetorical finesse.
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Social research; Islamic Studies; Modern history; South Asian Studies
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Social sciences;Democracy;India;Minority politics;Secularism;South Asia
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Mazzarella, William; Agrama, Hussein
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AnthropologyThe University of Chicago
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