Self and Sovereignty ;individual and community in South Asian Islam since 1850

Self and Sovereignty examines the shifts in Muslim thought and politics in response to colonial rule in India through to the period
decolonization and partition.

Commencing in colonial times, this book explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of Muslim individual and the community of Islam has been reconfigured over time. Self and Sovereignty examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the individual, regional, class and cultural
differences that have shaped the discourse and politics of Muslim identity.

As well as fascinating discussion of political and religious movements, culture and art, This book includes analysis of:
• press, poetry and politics in late nineteenth-century India
• the politics of language and identity -Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi
• Muslim identity, cultural difference and nationalism
• the Punjab and the politics of union and disunion
• the creation of Pakistan
Covering a period of immense upheaval an sometimes devastating violence, this work an important and enlightening insight into'
history of Muslims in South Asia.