Qaum Mulk Sultanat

Author : Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503637795

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Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat by Ali Usman Qasmi Pdf

After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While leadership in India claimed the anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim history and political tradition from a millennium long history of cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence. Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state—such as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a "national festival"—providing an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history in the subcontinent.

Author : Uday Chandra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503639157

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Resistance as Negotiation by Uday Chandra Pdf

"Tribes" appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts of resistance and rebellion by groups designated as "tribal" have fascinated as well as perplexed administrators and scholars in South Asia and beyond. Tribal resistance and rebellion are held to be tragic yet heroic political acts by "subaltern" groups confronting omnipotent states. By contrast, this book draws on fifteen years of archival and ethnographic research to argue that statemaking is intertwined inextricably with the politics of tribal resistance in the margins of modern India. Uday Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal or adivasi subjects have made and remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects. Accordingly, tribal resistance, whether peaceful or violent, is better understood vis-à-vis negotiations with the modern state, rather than its negation, over the past two centuries. How certain people and places came to be seen as "tribal" in modern India is, therefore, tied intimately to how "tribal" subjects remade their customs and community in the course of negotiations with colonial and postcolonial states. Ultimately, the empirical material unearthed in this book requires rethinking and rewriting the political history of modern India from its "tribal" margins.

Author : Navyug Gill
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503637504

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Labors of Division by Navyug Gill Pdf

One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global capitalism through a radical history of the concept of "the peasant," demonstrating how seemingly fixed hierarchies were in fact produced, legitimized, and challenged within the preeminent agricultural region of South Asia. Navyug Gill uncovers how and why British officials and ascendant Panjabis disrupted existing forms of identity and occupation to generate a new agrarian order in the countryside. The notion of the hereditary caste peasant engaged in timeless cultivation thus emerged, paradoxically, as a result of a dramatic series of conceptual, juridical, and monetary divisions. Far from archaic relics, this book ultimately reveals both the landowning peasant and landless laborer to be novel political subjects forged through the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Questions of progress, exploitation and knowledge come to animate the vernacular operations of power. With this history, Gill brings difference and contingency to understandings of the global past in order to re-think the itinerary of comparative political economy as well as alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures.

Author : Andrew McDowell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503638785

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Breathless by Andrew McDowell Pdf

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB's prevalence also indicates unfulfilled development promises, its control is an important issue of national concern, wrapped up in questions of postcolonial governance. Drawing on long-term ethnographic engagement with a village in North India and its TB epidemic, Andrew McDowell tells the stories of socially marginalized Dalit ("ex-untouchable") farming families afflicted by TB, and the nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums, and mystics who care for them. Each of the book's chapters centers on a material or metaphorical substance—such as dust, clouds, and ghosts—to understand how breath and airborne illness entangle biological and social life in everyday acts of care for the self, for others, and for the environment. From this raft of stories about the ways people make sense of and struggle with troubled breath, McDowell develops a philosophy and phenomenology of breathing that attends to medical systems, patient care, and health justice. He theorizes that breath—as an intersection between person and world—provides a unique perspective on public health and inequality. Breath is deeply intimate and personal, but also shared and distributed. Through it all, Breathless traces the multivalent relations that breath engenders between people, environments, social worlds, and microbes.

Author : Srirupa Roy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503637993

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The Political Outsider by Srirupa Roy Pdf

Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of actually existing democracy are intense and strident. In recent years, the trope of victimized people suffering at the hands of a predatory elite and political dysfunction has reaped rewards. The populist language of redemptive outsiders pledging to combat a corrupt system has been harnessed in successful electoral campaigns, like the majoritarian regime of Narendra Modi. Tracking the shift from postcolonial nation-building to democracy-rebuilding, Srirupa Roy shows how the political outsider came to be a valorized figure of late-twentieth century Indian democracy, tasked with the urgent mission of curing a broken democratic system—what Roy terms "curative democracy." Drawing attention to an ambivalent political field that folds together authoritarian and democratic forms and ideas, Roy argues that the long 1970s were a crucial turning point in Indian politics, when democracy was suspended by the declaration of a national emergency and then subsequently restored. By tracing the crooked line that connects the ideals of curative democracy and the political outsider to the populist antipolitics and strongman authoritarian rule in present times, this book revisits democracy from India, and asks what the Indian experience tells us about the trajectory of global democratic politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia
ISBN : UVA:X004696994

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Seminar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015062124782

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New Quest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Pakistan
ISBN : UOM:39015078205468

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First Pakistan Almanac by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133007083

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Poetry in a Time of Terror by Rukmini Bhaya Nair Pdf

Essays examine the poetic stances assumed by 'terror' in relation to nation, language, translation, borders, gender, sexuality, and other forms of 'difference'.

Author : Khursheed Kamal Aziz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 9693523555

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The Murder of History by Khursheed Kamal Aziz Pdf

Author : William C. Kirby
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080475232X

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Realms of Freedom in Modern China by William C. Kirby Pdf

The fifteenth and final volume of the series The Making of Modern Freedom, this book explores a variety of issues surrounding questions of human rights and freedom in China. The chapters suggest very significant realms of freedom, with or without the protection of law, in the personal, social, and economic lives of people in China before the twentieth century. This was recognized, and partly codified, in the early twentieth century, when legal experts sought to establish a republic of laws and limits. The process of legal reform, however, would be placed firmly in the service of strengthening the post-imperial Chinese nation-state, culminating after 1949 in despotism unparalleled in Chinese history. Nevertheless, the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of our own would witness a slow, steady, but unmistakable reassertion of realms of personal and communal autonomy that show, even in an era of strong states, at least the prospect of institutionalized freedoms.

Author : Justin Jones,Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108905

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The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia by Justin Jones,Ali Usman Qasmi Pdf

This book explores various Shi'i communities in the subcontinent as well as South Asian Shi'i diasporas in East Africa.

Author : Waqar H. Zaidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836784

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Technological Internationalism and World Order by Waqar H. Zaidi Pdf

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

Author : Gyanendra Pandey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804752648

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Routine Violence by Gyanendra Pandey Pdf

This book investigates the ideological and political conditions that allow, and sanction, the undisguised political violence of our times. It is concerned with the regnant demands of nationalism and of history writing, and the unity and uniformity upon which these insist.

Author : Emily Honig
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804720126

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Sisters and Strangers by Emily Honig Pdf

In Shanghai, China's largest industrial center prior to 1949, cotton was king and the majority of mill workers were women. This book presents rich information on all aspects of the life of this group of urban workers. Book jacket.