This volume, part of the Towards Freedom series, contains primary sources and archival documents related to the year 1939. The first part which has now been published systematically covered in four chapters, different aspects of the history of British - the governments of the 1937 elections, the role of India in World War II, the role of Congress ...
Focusing on topical issues and with an introduction by Mushirul Hasan, this important collection of Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches showcases the relevance of his vision in India today.
Mushirul Hasan makes a valuable contribution to debates about the society, policy, and history of Indian Muslims in this book. Rejecting generalizations like Good Muslim, Bad Muslim and the clash of civilizations, this book presents Indian Islam as one that is rooted in its environment and that exists in a pluralist milieu. Hasan's agenda is to ...
Volume 37 in this continuing series covers a period of particular importance in the development of Indian democracy, the second general elections, and India's foreign policy.
This anthology of short stories illustrates the complexity and multi-faceted nature of the Muslim communities in the subcontinent, highlighting the diverse images of Muslims and exploding the myth of a uniform Muslim identity.
This book is a collection of essays, extracts, memoirs and a short story, outlining the events during the decade preceding India's partition which culminated in the making of Pakistan and the division of India and the situation thereafter. This is a paperback reprint of the earlier hardback edition, published in 1993.
A chronicle not only of the origin of tea, but of its planting and manufacture, its tasting and blending, and its sale by auction along with marketing and packaging forms.
First published in 1937, this magisterial account of India in the 1930s contains the impressions and thoughts of Halide Edib, a Turkish writer who is not interested in imagining, inscribing or inventing India, but rather in documenting its multifaceted personality. Edib's idea of India is firmly anchored in the historical and sociological insights ...
This Omnibus covers all issues related to the emergence and crystallization of Muslims community identities before and after independence. The introduction situates these landmark texts in the pan-Indian scenario while the three volumes focus on different aspects - the empathetic view, the regional, and the national picture - of Muslim identities ...
In this significant work, Mushirul Hasan draws on the family history of the Kidwais of Bara Banki district of the United Provinces to provide an engaging and colourful account of the qasbati life in colonial Awadh. Professor Hasan invokes a fragmanet of Bara Banki's past and present, highlighting the guiding principles of the qasbah people, ...
Lutfullah belonged to a distinguished Sufi family of Malwa. But his family lost its fortunes, and Lutfullah travelled to Baroda, Ujjain, Gwalior, and Agra, before reaching Delhi in 1817. He found odd jobs in the course of his extensive travels, but, more importantly, he developed a reputation as a teacher of Arabic, Persian, and some Indian ...
First published in 1937, this is a book about India as seen through the eyes of the well-known Turkish writer and novelist, Halide Edib, who visited the region in 1935. It makes a conscious attempt to document significant contemporary events that were shaping the history of India at the time, such as the Gandhian movement and the Hindu-Muslim ...
Charles Stewart's translation of Abul Taleb's travels in Asia, Africa, and Europe during 1799 - 1803 is valuable for anyone who wishes to undertake a comparative study of contemporary sources for social life and conditions in Ireland, England, and France during the early years of the nineteenth century. This volume is edited and annotated by ...
This collection of essays effectively reflects the ongoing debate around the ideas of syncretism, synthesis, and pluralism in South Asia today. It discusses various aspects of syncretism in India while problematizing the very concept of syncretism. The essays pose a number of pertinent and relevant questions, even as they focus on various ...
The essays in this volume by a group of Japanese and Indian scholars discuss and debate some aspects of nation building and development planning in India. The essays deal with partition, Hindu nationalism, minorities the backword classes movement and the issue of reservations in contemporary India.
"Partners in Freedom: Jamia Millia Islamia", endeavours to unfurl the nationalist legacy of Jamia, locate its story in the larger context of India's anti-colonial struggle, and profiles the lives of dedicated men and women who were committed to the ideas of plural nationhood and composite culture. When words do not suffice, rare, never-seen-before ...
This a painstakingly researched and passionately written account of the ideas and movements that constitute the indian's muslim experience over the last 2 centuries. Divided onto 5 sections. the book analyses the complex processes of identity formation, the politization of Islam, and the demand for a seperate nation. Based upon reliable research ...
This volume is a selection of the most significant writings on India's Partition. It reconsiders an important question why a people with a history of shared living, responded to symbols of discord and disunity at a particular historical juncture? Why, a society with plural heritage, became the site of one of the most cataclysmic events in 20th ...
This volume, based on a wide range of Urdu sources, highlights the pluralism and multiculturalism of qasbas in colonial Awadh. Moving away from an urban Lucknow-centric approach for colonial Awadh, the author studies qasbati identity, its inheritance of Indio-Persian culture, and syncretic culture. The book negotiates the connections of the local ...
Addresses an aspect of Indian society which has been a matter of widespread concern, the working of major institutions, some Hindu and some Muslim, whose ideologies and positions have been separative.
Essays collected in the volume examine the problem of Muslim idenity particulary in plural societies. Some of the topics covered are Sectarian strife on Lucknow Kashmiri Muslims Tablighis Bengali Muslims Bosnia tangle Partitions Biharis Meo identity religion in Transcaucasia Women legal reforms and Muslim identity. religilon in Transcaucasia ...
This important text authored by Mohamed Ali illumines how influential public figures like him eflected on the changes ushered in by the colonial government and their impact on his community and the nation. It is a document of deep religious feeling which illuminates his inner self. His insights enable us to understand how muslim identity was being ...
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A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918
The Partition Omnibus: Comprising Prelude to Partition: The Indian Muslims and the Imperial System of Control 1920 - 1932. the Origins of the Partition of India 1936 - 1947 Divide and Quit: An Eyewitness Account of the Partition of India with...
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Dr. David Page, Anita Inder Singh, Penderel Moon
