Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India - Hardcover

Dhulipala, Venkat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107052122 ISBN 13: 9781107052123

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India. It argues that Pakistan was not a simply a vague idea that serendipitously emerged as a nation-state, but was popularly imagined as a sovereign Islamic State, a new Medina, as some called it. In this regard, it was envisaged as the harbinger of Islam's renewal and rise in the twentieth century, the new leader and protector of the global community of Muslims, and a worthy successor to the defunct Turkish Caliphate. The book also specifically foregrounds the critical role played by Deobandi ulama in articulating this imagined national community with an awareness of Pakistan's global historical significance.

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Book Description:

This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India.

About the Author:

Venkat Dhulipala is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, specializing in the history of modern South Asia. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2008. Dhulipala offers courses on modern India and Pakistan, Gandhi, Mughal India, and India and Pakistan after 1947.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107052122
• ISBN 13: 9781107052123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544