The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North IndiaOxford University Press, 2006 - 320 pages "This book charts the history of the term communalism and the politics and attitudes it seeks to encapsulate. While attending closely to the social, economic and political issues underlying Hindu and Muslim struggles, the author investigates the meanings different participants in the sectarian politics of the period attached to these politics. The second edition reopens many of the questions signalled in the first edition, carries the discussion forward through an analysis of the uses of the term communalism in a postcolonial world, and seeks to historicize the debate on political violence and the targeting of the minorities in recent times."--pub. desc. |
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Page 5
... particular age , in this particular colonial country . ' Communalism ' has appeared in this discourse as perhaps the central problem to be overcome in the development of a self - governing , national and democratic polity in India . The ...
... particular age , in this particular colonial country . ' Communalism ' has appeared in this discourse as perhaps the central problem to be overcome in the development of a self - governing , national and democratic polity in India . The ...
Page 28
... particular description is of course lifted straight from the account contained in the Banaras Gazetteer of 1907 , quoted above . Notice that scarcely a word is altered in the text : and yet the change of context completely transforms ...
... particular description is of course lifted straight from the account contained in the Banaras Gazetteer of 1907 , quoted above . Notice that scarcely a word is altered in the text : and yet the change of context completely transforms ...
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... particular localities , or bound by anything in the way of a ' revealed ' book or a ' united ' church . The all - India ' Hindu community ' ( and , to a large extent , the all - India ' Muslim community ' too ) was a colonial creation ...
... particular localities , or bound by anything in the way of a ' revealed ' book or a ' united ' church . The all - India ' Hindu community ' ( and , to a large extent , the all - India ' Muslim community ' too ) was a colonial creation ...
Contents
The Colonial Construction of the Indian Past | 23 |
The Bigoted Julaha | 66 |
Community as History | 109 |
Copyright | |
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