Poetry of belonging : Muslim imaginings of India 1850-1950 / Ali Khan Mahmudabad.
2020
PJ827
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Title
Poetry of belonging : Muslim imaginings of India 1850-1950 / Ali Khan Mahmudabad.
ISBN
9780190991678 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
PJ827
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.193528297
Summary
This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian, given the socio-political exigencies of the time. Specifically, a history of the public space of poetry will be presented and half of the book will chart a history of the mushairah (poetic symposium) over this period. In doing so it will analyse the multiple ways in which this space adapted to the changing economic, social, political and technological contexts of the time. The second half of the book will present a history of the ideas that were often articulated in the space of the mushairah and changing notions of the watan (homeland) amongst various Muslim individuals will be analysed.
Note
This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian, given the socio-political exigencies of the time. Specifically, a history of the public space of poetry will be presented and half of the book will chart a history of the mushairah (poetic symposium) over this period. In doing so it will analyse the multiple ways in which this space adapted to the changing economic, social, political and technological contexts of the time. The second half of the book will present a history of the ideas that were often articulated in the space of the mushairah and changing notions of the watan (homeland) amongst various Muslim individuals will be analysed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190121013
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