Muslim Secular - Parity and the Politics of India''s Partition

This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.

List of contents

• Introduction


• PART I INHERITING HINDUSTAN: ABUL KALAM AZAD AND THE CONGRESS MUSLIMS


• 1: Secularism as Culture


• 2: The Indian Intoxicant


• PART II BEYOND THE REGION: INDIA IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SHEIKH ABDULLAH AND ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN


• 3: A Three-Nation Theory


• 4: An Ethical Country


• Conclusion

About the author

An intellectual historian of modern India and Pakistan, Amar Sohal completed his DPhil in History at Merton College, Oxford. Now an Early-Career Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his research focuses on anti-colonial nationalism, religious politics, and the secular state. His writing has been published in leading academic journals: Modern Intellectual History, Global Intellectual History, and South Asia. He has also scripted and presented an hour-long documentary titled Azad and Jinnah: A Political Rivalry in Late Colonial India. He tweets @sohalamarsingh

Summary

This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.

Additional text

Amar Sohal's The Muslim Secular makes a powerful intervention in Indian political thought, especially in the body of literature known as Indian secularism.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Amar Sohal, Dr Amar (Early-Career Research Fellow in Po Sohal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2023
• EAN: 9780198887638
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888763-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, Asian History, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General