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Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration | ix
Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? | 1
1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale | 21
2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony | 53
3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India | 87
4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel | 126
5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel | 165
Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu | 209
Acknowledgments | 221
Notes | 225
Index | 255

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 19/01/2021
      ISBN13: 9780823290130, 978-0823290130
      ISBN10: 0823290131
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      Asian history History of religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

      Table of Contents

      Note on Transliteration | ix
      Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? | 1
      1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale | 21
      2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony | 53
      3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India | 87
      4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel | 126
      5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel | 165
      Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu | 209
      Acknowledgments | 221
      Notes | 225
      Index | 255

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