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 16
... perhaps enough to refer to only two aspects of the change in context between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries . Let us note , first , the absence of any powerful sense of an ' all - India Hindu community ' or an ' all - India ...
... perhaps enough to refer to only two aspects of the change in context between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries . Let us note , first , the absence of any powerful sense of an ' all - India Hindu community ' or an ' all - India ...
Page 82
... perhaps unprecedented hold not only on the trade but on the weavers themselves . 39 There can be no doubt that this heightened strength of the merchants / moneylenders , their powerful position in law under the new colonial dispensation ...
... perhaps unprecedented hold not only on the trade but on the weavers themselves . 39 There can be no doubt that this heightened strength of the merchants / moneylenders , their powerful position in law under the new colonial dispensation ...
Page 132
... perhaps , of the money- lenders ' increasing prosperity and a new - found self - confidence in the altered political circumstances of the day . Perhaps it was another reflection of uncertainty in the new political situation that the ...
... perhaps , of the money- lenders ' increasing prosperity and a new - found self - confidence in the altered political circumstances of the day . Perhaps it was another reflection of uncertainty in the new political situation that the ...
Contents
The Colonial Construction of the Indian Past | 23 |
The Bigoted Julaha | 66 |
Community as History | 109 |
Copyright | |
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