
Muslims against the Muslim League
Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan
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The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders and organizations which were opposed to this demand, predicating their opposition to the League on its understanding of the history and ideological content of the Muslim nation. This volume takes stock of multiple narratives about Muslim identity formation in the context of debates about partition, historicizes those narratives, and reads them in the light of the larger political milieu of the period. Focusing on the critiques of the Muslim League, its concept of the Muslim nation, and the political settlement demanded on its behalf, it studies how the movement for Pakistan inspired a contentious, influential conversation on the definition of the Muslim nation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Muslims against the Muslim League
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani and the Jamiâat âUlama-i-Hind
- 2. The Partition Conundrum: Perspectives, experiences and ambiguities from qasbahs in India
- 3. Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his Political Imagination: Pak Plan and the Continent of Dinia
- 4. Differentiating between Pakistan and Napak-istan: Maulana Abul Ala Maududiâs critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 5. Advising the Army of Allah: Ashraf Ali Thanawiâs Critique of the Muslim League
- 6. The Illusory Promise of Freedom: Mian Iftikhar-ud-Din and the Movement for Pakistan
- 7. Visionary of Another Politics: Inayatullah Khan âal-Mashriqiâ and Pakistan
- 8. Nonviolence, Pukhtunwali and Decolonization: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudaâi Khidmatgar Politics of Friendship
- 9. Islam, Communism and the Search for a Fiction
- 10. Muslim Nationalist or Nationalist Muslim?: Allah Bakhsh Soomro and Muslim politics in 1930s and 1940s Sindh
- 11. Dancing with the Enemy: Sikander Hayat Khan, Jinnah, and the vexed question of âPakistanâ in a Punjabi Unionist context
- 12. Religion between Region and Nation: Rezaul Karim, Bengal, and Muslim Politicsat the End of Empire
- 13. âThe Pakistan that is Going to be Sunnistan: âIndian Shiâa Responses to The Pakistan Movement
- 14. The Baluch Qaum of Qalat State: Challenging the Ideological and Territorial Boundaries of Pakistan
- Contributors
- Index