The language of secular Islam : urdu nationalism and colonial India (Record no. 60198)

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ISBN 9788125050186
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Classification number 306.446095484
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Personal name Kavita Saraswathi Datla
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Title The language of secular Islam : urdu nationalism and colonial India
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Place of publication Hyderabad
Name of publisher Orient blackswan
Year of publication 2013
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Number of Pages xiii, 234 p.
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Summary, etc During the turbulent period prior to colonial Indias Partition and Independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model of secular education introduced to South Asia by the British, Indian academics in princely Hyderabad launched a spirited debate about the reform of Islamic education, the importance of education in the spoken languages of the country, the shape of Urdu and its past, and the significance of the histories of Islam and India for their present. The Language of Secular Islam pursues an alternative account of the political disagreements between Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, conflicts too often described as the product of primordial and unchanging attachments to religion.<br/>The author suggests that the political struggles of India in the 1930s, the very decade in which the demand for Pakistan began to be articulated, should not be understood as the product of an inadequate or incomplete secularism, but as the clashing of competing secular agendas. Her work explores negotiations over language, education, and religion at Osmania University, the first university in India to use a modern Indian language (Urdu) as its medium of instruction in all academic subjects. Grounded in close attention to historical evidence, The Language of Secular Islam has broad ramifications for some of the most difficult issues currently debated in the humanities and social sciences: the significance and legacies of European colonialism, the inclusions and exclusions enacted by nationalist projects, the place of minorities in the forging of Indian nationalism, and the relationship between religion and modern politics. It will be of interest to historians of colonial India, scholars of religion, and anyone who follows language politics.
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Topical Term Urdu language
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Topical Term Language and education
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Topical Term Muslim educators
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Topical Term Language policy
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 17/12/2020 1775.00 306.446095484 KAV/L 52274 BK

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