Remaking History - 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad

"The story this book follows begins on August 15, 1947. As the new nation-states of India and Pakistan prepared to negotiate land and power, the citizens of the princely state of Hyderabad experienced the unravelling of an intense political conflict between the union government of India and the local ruler, the Nizam of Hyderabad. The author explores how the state of Hyderabad was struggling to produce its own tools of cultural renaissance and modernity in the background of the union government's deployment of the central army, the Nizam's idea of 'Azad Hyderabad' and the Telangana armed struggle fostered by leftist parties. With evidence from the oral histories of various sections-both Muslims and non-Muslims-and a wide variety of written sources and historical documents, this book captures such an intense moment of new politics and cultural discourses"--

List of contents

List of Maps and Images; Preface; Introduction; 1. No Longer a Nawab: The Making of a New Hyderabadi Muslim; 2. 'All Muslims are not the Razakars': The Political Idiom of an Independent Hyderabad; 3. 'I am Going to Fight...': Muslim Women's Politics and Gender Activism; 4. For the Love of Urdu: Relocating Urdu in Postcolonial Hyderabad; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Afsar Mohammad is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning South Asian scholar working on Hindu-Muslim interactions in India. He also focuses on Muslim writing and Telugu studies. Afsar teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His previous work 'The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India,' published by the Oxford University Press, USA in 2013 has received high praise for its contributions to the studies on vernacular Islam.

Product details

• Authors: Afsar Mohammad, Afsar (University of Pennsylvania) Mohammad, Mohammad Afsar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009339636
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0933963-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Telugu, Oral History, Urdu, Andhra Pradesh, Social and cultural history, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Asian History, c 1940 to c 1949, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Invasion, conquest and occupation, Regional, state and other local government, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, Telangana, HISTORY / Asia / South / General