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      Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India
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      Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India

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      Monuments, Memory, Contestation

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      Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India book

      Monuments, Memory, Contestation
      ByHilal Ahmed
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 20 February 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge India
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733951
      Pages 344
      eBook ISBN 9781315733951
      Subjects Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies, Politics & International Relations
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      Ahmed, H. (2014). Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733951

      ABSTRACT

      The book examines the postcolonial Muslim political discourse through monuments. It establishes a link between the process by which historic buildings become monuments and the gradual transformation of these historic/legal entities into political objects. The author studies the multiple interpretations of Indo-Islamic historical buildings as ‘political sites’ as well as emerging Muslim religiosities and the internal configurations of Muslim politics in India. He also looks at the modes by which a memory of a royal Muslim past is articulated for political mobilisation.

      Raising critical questions such as whether Muslim responses to political questions are homogenous, the book will greatly interest researchers and students of political science, modern Indian history, sociology, as well as the general reader interested in contemporary India.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|49 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|47 pages

      Monumentalisation in Colonial India: Discovery of ‘Indian Muslim Architectural Heritage’

      chapter 3|43 pages

      Monumentalisation in Postcolonial India: Conservation, Law and Muslim Politics

      chapter 4|52 pages

      Jama Masjid and the Political Memory of a Royal Muslim Past

      chapter 5|83 pages

      Babri Masjid and the Muslim Politics of Right to Heritage

      chapter 6|9 pages

      Conclusion

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