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Indian Secularism

A Social and Intellectual History 18901950

SHABNUM TEJANI

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Acknowledgements

T he debts I have incurred in the years it has taken me to bring this book to completion are many. The book grows out of my doctoral work at Columbia University and so my first debt is to my supervisor, Ayesha Jalal. Ayesha has been friend and mentor over many years. The intensity of her intellectual engagement as well as the affection underlying her belief in this work is a lesson I aim to take forward. Ayesha has engaged with this project at all stages. I hope she sees her imprint on it. Thanks also go to David Armitage, Talal Asad, Dennis Dalton, and Nicholas Dirks, with whom I had the privilege of working for some time. Each of their contributions enabled me move the project forward.

I am grateful to the staff at libraries in India and Britain from which I drew the material for this study: the National Archives of India and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi; the Maharashtra State Archives, the Deputy Inspector Generals Office, Bombay University Library and the Asiatic Library in Mumbai; the Oriental and India Office Collections in London; and the library of the Centre for South Asian Studies in Cambridge. Conversations with scholars in India in the initial stages of research helped formulate my methodological approach: Mushirul Hasan, Asghar Ali Engineer, the late Ravinder Kumar, Y.D. Phadke, Asiya Siddiqi, and the late Rafiq Zakaria.

I received support from a number of different sources to pursue this project. I would like to acknowledge, in order of receipt, a multi-year fellowship from the History Department at Columbia University, a junior research fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, an alumni grant from Oberlin College, a travel grant from the Old Bancroftians Association, a Whiting dissertation writing fellowship from Columbia University, and a fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in Britain which my employing institution, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), very generously agreed to match.

The research time in India was perhaps the most enjoyable part of this process. But it would not have been as productive or rewarding had it not been for the many people who generously took me into their homes. In Delhi, my cousin Anis Raza and her family took care of me in the way that only family can. I also befriended Kavita Misra. I am especially grateful to her parents, Soumendra and Chandramohini Misra, who have taken me in and treated me like a daughter on many occasions. I was equally fortunate in Bombay. Despite many other pressing demands, Indubhushan, Indira and Mona Doctor welcomed me into their home for several months and on many subsequent visits.

I am lucky to have colleagues and friends with whom I have been able to talk through many of my ideas and from whom I have learned immensely. Daud Ali, Chetan Bhatt, Durba Ghosh, Sangeeta Kamat, Biju Mathew, Rajit Mazumder, Ali Mir, Sanghamitra Misra, Anu Needham, Rochelle Pinto, Subir Sinha, Deborah Sutton, Mridu Rai, Siddharth Varadarajan, and Rashmi Varma among others have provided an engaging intellectual environment over the years. Peter Robb and Tom Tomlinson at SOAS read the dissertation and provided invaluable advice on how to find the book that was buried in there. Many thanks go to Rukun Advani for believing in this book and for going above and beyond the call of duty to ensure its production was as rapid and wrinkle-free as one could ever hope.

In the solitary endeavour of writing, one becomes acutely aware of the importance of friendship. In this, my acknowledgements go to Aaron Agnee, Naomi Burns, Valerie De Cruz, Anene Ejikeme, Nelida Fuccaro, Shaalan Farouk, Amy Hsi, Sangeeta Kamat, Emanuelle Kihm, Biju Mathew, Rachel Mattson, Carol Miles, Kavita Misra, Joey Mogul, Renu Nahata, Sonali Sathaye, Sam Shinn, Mohan Sikka, and Vinay Swamy for their unswerving affection and for providing welcome distraction from my work. Thank you to Mike Spencer for teaching me the importance of non-intellectual work. My debt to John Parker is of a different order. Without his encouragement, advice, and critical editorial interventions, the book would have been far less than it is.

My greatest acknowledgement, however, is to my family, for without them this would not have been possible. In particular, my thanks go to my two aunts, Malika Amin and Gulbanu Mavany; my mother Sakkar Tejani; and my brother, Abbas, who have always provided a loving environment and a sane perspective. It is to my mother that I dedicate this book.

Glossary

Adivasi	term for Indias tribals
Anjuman	an association, usually of Muslims
Arya	here refers to Indo-European tribes who are meant to have invaded the Indian subcontinent around the second millennium BC
Bahujan Samaj	Marathi phrase, loosely meaning the society of the majority, commonly used to denote Dalits in the Hindi belt
Bania	term used for members of castes associated with commerce, trade, or moneylending
Bhadralok	decent folk (Bengali); educated high-caste Bengali Hindus
Bhatia	Bania trading caste from Gujarat
Chaturvarna	the system of the four varnas (see varna)
Chitpavan	a subcaste of Brahmans from the Konkan; the caste of the peshwas, who played an important role in Maharashtra as governors and administrators
Dalit	Marathi/Hindi term meaning the oppressed; term for untouchable groups, now used in preference to the Gandhian appellation harijan
Dar-ul-harb	Arabic term meaning land of war; a territory in which the sharia is not observed and in which, according to classical Muslim jurisprudence, believers should choose between jihad and hijrat
Dar-ul-Islam	Arabic term meaning abode of Islam; a territory in which the sharia is observed
Deshastha	Brahman caste of Maharashtra
Deshmukh	Marathi term for the head of an armed elite family vested by Maratha rulers with authority over a grouping of villages; a revenue official under the British

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