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 81
... practice and display of piety provided a major means for the expression of status , and of claims to higher status , throughout this period . So Bichchuk Kalwar sought to establish his position among the élite of Mubarakpur through ...
... practice and display of piety provided a major means for the expression of status , and of claims to higher status , throughout this period . So Bichchuk Kalwar sought to establish his position among the élite of Mubarakpur through ...
Page 98
... practices are associated with the weaver's loom . The first , and most obvious , is commercial pro- duction . A second is cloth production for the dying , the weaving of the kafan or shroud . Unlike with the first , this practice is not ...
... practices are associated with the weaver's loom . The first , and most obvious , is commercial pro- duction . A second is cloth production for the dying , the weaving of the kafan or shroud . Unlike with the first , this practice is not ...
Page 297
... practices ] have failed to comprehend what their ancestors were aiming at , and have made up numerous new rituals [ practices ] and written them into the Shastras . Therefore , you must understand once and for all why a particular practice ...
... practices ] have failed to comprehend what their ancestors were aiming at , and have made up numerous new rituals [ practices ] and written them into the Shastras . Therefore , you must understand once and for all why a particular practice ...
Contents
The Colonial Construction of the Indian Past | 23 |
The Bigoted Julaha | 66 |
Community as History | 109 |
Copyright | |
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