{"product_id":"subaltern-studies-xii-muslims-dalits-and-the-fabrications-of-history-9788178242149","title":"Subaltern Studies XII: Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Shail Mayaram, M.S.S. Pandian and Ajay Skaria(Eds.)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twelfth volume of\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSubaltern Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e comprises essays broadly linked by an interest in the history of Muslims and Dalits in South Asia, or with the manner in which dominant histories in the subcontinent have been ‘fabricated’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShahid Amin examines how a persistent image of ‘the Mussalman’ came into being via the work of Hindi writers and publicists in the late nineteenth century. He suggests that this image was not derived from popular memory but conjured up for political deployment. He reveals the enormous mileage gained by this image, both ‘then’ and ‘now’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eM.T. Ansari looks at the history of Mappila peasant ‘uprisings’ in the early twentieth century, and at how these came to be discursively constructed to arrive at an image of the fanatic Mussalman. This then yielded the argument that the Muslim fanatic was a religious fundamentalist who had either to be confined or killed. This essay also thus carries resonances of present-day fabrications of Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFaisal Fatehali Devji’s essay on Gandhi’s politics of friendship offers an interesting counterpoint to the preceding two. Focusing on the Khilafat Movement, it studies friendship in one of Gandhi’s boldest experiments—his attempt to rethink political relations between Hindus and Muslims. In looking at Gandhi as ‘a spoiler within the rhetoric of colonial India’, Devji points implicitly to the importance of Gandhian ideology in contemporary India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMilind Wakankar examines the anomalous position of Kabir within the frameworks of caste and canonicity. His essay serves here as a bridge between the issue of Untouchables\/Dalits on the one hand and Hindu-Muslim relations on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnupama Rao looks at the history, politics, and legal aspects of an incident in which a Dalit \u003cem\u003ekotwal\u003c\/em\u003e was murdered on the steps of a Hanuman temple. Governmental discourse and Dalit rights are illuminated in important new ways in this essay.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraveena Kodoth’s essay analyses authority, property, and matriliny in colonial Malabar. It offers a detailed study of the codification of custom and looks at the ideas and assumptions that shaped colonial law-making.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube, and Reena Dube investigate the rhetoric of bardic historians in Rajasthan and interrogate colonial perspectives of that tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrathama Banerjee investigates a crucial imperative of nationalism—pride, love and adoration of one’s nation—through acts of the imagination in colonial Bengal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616510337175,"sku":"9788178242149","price":499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178242149.webp?v=1769294982","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/subaltern-studies-xii-muslims-dalits-and-the-fabrications-of-history-9788178242149","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}