Remaking History : 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad

Mohammad, Afsar

Cambridge University Press（2024/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 332 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009339636
• DDC分類 954.84

Full Description

The story this book follows begins on August 15, 1947. As the new nation-states of India and Pakistan prepared to negotiate land and power, the citizens of the princely state of Hyderabad experienced the unravelling of an intense political conflict between the Union government of India and the local ruler, the Nizam of Hyderabad. The author explores how the state of Hyderabad was struggling to produce its own tools of cultural renaissance and modernity in the background of the Union Government of India's deployment of the central army, the Nizam's idea of an 'Muslim state' and the Telangana Armed struggle fostered by leftist parties. With evidence from the oral histories of various sections - both Muslims and non-Muslims - and a wide variety of written sources and historical documents, this book captures such an intense moment of new politics and cultural discourses.

Contents

List of Maps and Images; Preface; Introduction; 1. No Longer a Nawab: The Making of a New Hyderabadi Muslim; 2. 'All Muslims are not the Razakars': The Political Idiom of an Independent Hyderabad; 3. 'I am Going to Fight...': Muslim Women's Politics and Gender Activism; 4. For the Love of Urdu: Relocating Urdu in Postcolonial Hyderabad; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.