How best do we survive ?
Material type:
- 9780415589130
- 320.95482 MCP
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Gandhi Smriti Library | 320.95482 MCP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out to Kaveri Hostel OT Lounge (KAVERI) | 2023-09-29 | 145896 |
Browsing Gandhi Smriti Library shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
||
320.954162 MAH Confronting the state:ULFA's quest for sovereignty | 320.954164 DUT Functioning of autonomous 5 district councils in Meghalaya | 320.95482 MCP How best do we survive? a modern political history of the Tamil muslims | 320.95482 MCP How best do we survive ? | 320.9549 COH Pakistan | 320.95491 AYA What's wrong with Pakistan? | 320.95491 MAH Pakistan political roots and development (1947-1999) |
This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in dealing with the rise of Indian nationalism, the local political nuances of that rise, and its own changing position as part of the wider Muslim community in India.
The book argues that Partition and the foundation of Pakistan in 1947 were neither the goal nor the necessarily inescapable result of the growth of communal politics and sentiment, and analyses the post-1947 constructions of events leading to Partition. Neither the fact of Muslim communalism per se before 1947 nor the existence of separate Muslim electorates provide an explanation for Pakistan. The book advances the theory that micro-level studies of the operation of the former, and the defence of the latter, in British India can lead to a better understanding of the origins of communalism.
The book makes an important contribution to understanding and dealing with the complexities of communalism — be it Hindu, Muslim or Christian — and its often tragic consequences.
There are no comments on this title.