• ISBN13: 9780198099574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: June 15, 2014
• Pages: 352
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

During the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, concerned Muslims around India mobilized to dispatch three medical teams to treat wounded Ottoman soldiers. Among them, the one organized by Mohammad Ali Jauhar and directed by Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari caught the limelight, thanks to the regular letters sent home by the director of the Mission and published in the weekly Comrade journal. In the body of scholarship on Ottoman pan-Islamism, as a manifestation of pan-Islamist political ideology and Muslim internationalist action and its influence on the 1919 Khilafat Movement in India, the 1912-13 Indian Medical Mission has not been analysed in detail. This book studies the letters by the director of the Mission and the political and ideational context of the period to provide the first full narrative history of the Medical Mission, detailing its simultaneously humanitarian and political purposes and activities in Turkey. The Mission was as much a humanitarian initiative as it was an effort to heal the pride of the Muslim population in India. This is their story, reconstructing to the extent possible their thoughts, voice and the era that shaped them. Book Features:Unexplored Turkish connection to Khilafat movement and Indian freedom movement Includes the original letters by MA Ansari since their first appearance 100 years ago First full narrative history of the Indian medical mission to Turkey in 1912 Table of Content:Contents Foreword ix M. Hamid Ansari Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Part One The Penultimate War of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire and Hindustan A Portrait of Pan-Islamism Part Two The Unintended Travelogue The Indian Medical Mission in Turkey The Indian Medical Mission in Hindsight Epilogue Appendix: Letters from Dr M. A. Ansari to Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar Select Bibliography Index About the Author

Burak Akçapar is a Turkish diplomat, author and scholar. As a career diplomat, Ambassador Akçapar has served as the Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the Republic of Turkey to India, Nepal and Maldives.