Culture and Power in South Asian Islam
This book explores the myriad diversities of South Asian Islam from a historical perspective attuned to the lived practices of Muslims in various portions of South Asia, outside of Urdu, Persian, or Arabic language perspectives. These perspectives are, in some cases, taken both from literal regions rarely noticed within discussions of South Asian Islam, such as Sri Lanka, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu. In other contributions the perspectives draw on historiographic interventions about the role of fakrs in South Asian history, qasbahs in South Asian history, and the role of Aligarh students within the Pakistan movement. As a collection of voices aimed at stimulating debate about the range and diversity of South Asian Islam, the book probes meanings and markers of categories such as Indic, Islamicate, and local or global Islam within the context of South Asia. Relevant to debates in the history of South Asia as well as Islamic studies, this collection will serve as a reference point for discussions about South Asian Islam as well as the nature and role of vernacularization as a cultural process. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
Neilesh Bose is Assistant Professor of History at St. Johns University, New York City, USA. A scholar of South Asian history, decolonization, cultural history and intellectual history, his research examines the history of religion, culture, and language in nineteenth and twentieth century South Asia. He also holds active research interests in imperial history and the history of migrations and diaspora.
SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
David Washbrook -University of Cambridge, UK
Boria Majumdar -University of Central Lancashire, UK
Sharmistha Gooptu -South Asia Research Foundation, India
Nalin Mehta -La Trobe University, Melbourne
This series offers a forum that will provide an integrated perspective on the field at large. It brings together research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, and provides scholars with a platform covering, but not restricted to, their particular fields of interest and specialization. Such an approach is critical to any expanding field of study, for the development of more informed and broader perspectives, and of more overarching theoretical conceptions.
The series achieves a multidisciplinary forum for the study of South Asia under the aegis of established disciplines (e.g. history, politics, gender studies) combined with more recent fields (e.g. sport studies, sexuality studies). A focus is also to make available to a broader readership new research on film, media, photography, medicine and the environment, which have to date remained more specialized fields within South Asian studies.
A significant concern for the series is to focus across the whole of the region known as South Asia, and not simply on India, as most South Asia forums inevitably tend to do. We are most conscious of this gap in South Asian studies and work to bring into focus more scholarship on and from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other parts of South Asia.
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Gender and Masculinities
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Television At Large in South Asia
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Mapping South Asian Masculinities
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Culture and Power in South Asian Islam
Defying the Perpetual Exception
Edited by Neilesh Bose
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The chapters in this book were originally published in South Asian History and Culture, volume 5, issue 2 (April 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
: Introduction
Defying the perpetual exception: culture and power in South Asian Islam
Neilesh Bose
South Asian History and Culture, volume 5, issue 2 (April 2014) pp. 141146
The solidarity agenda: Aligarh students and the demand for Pakistan
Amber H. Abbas
South Asian History and Culture, volume 5, issue 2 (April 2014) pp. 147162
Beyond centre-periphery: qasbahs and Muslim life in South Asia
M. Raisur Rahman
South Asian History and Culture, volume 5, issue 2 (April 2014) pp. 163178
Asian and Islamic crossings: Malay writing in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka
Ronit Ricci
South Asian History and Culture, volume 5, issue 2 (April 2014) pp. 179194
Can Om be an Islamic term? Translations, encounters, and Islamic discourse in vernacular South Asia
Torsten Tschacher
South Asian History and Culture, volume 5, issue 2 (April 2014) pp. 195211
