Alternative to Partition: Muslim Politics Between the Wars
| العنوان: | Alternative to Partition: Muslim Politics Between the Wars |
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| المؤلفون: | Ayesha Jalal, Anil Seal |
| المصدر: | Modern Asian Studies. 15:415-454 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1981. |
| سنة النشر: | 1981 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History, Politics, Incentive, Hinduism, Sociology and Political Science, Law, Political economy, Political science, Geography, Planning and Development, Partition (politics), Islam |
| الوصف: | When the British came to power in India, it was certainly not in the face of the organized resistance of Islam. Yet the British Raj came to its end among political and social convulsions in which Hindus and Muslims cut each other's throats and large populations were shunted across the new frontiers of a sub-continent, now divided into two nations on the basis of religion. Events of such magnitude have encouraged historians to seek explanations of matching significance which may account for the growth of Muslim separatism. This article is concerned with the period of the nineteen-twenties and -thirties, before the onset of the end game when the communal quarrel burst out in deadly earnest. Explicit rival-ries between the communities tended to exist at two main levels, the level of organized politics at the top where Hindu and Muslim elites were rivals for influence with government and eventually for the control of government itself, and the level of mob violence in the streets. This article is concerned with organized politics at the top, although it does not deny the existence and importance of tensions at the base. Its main emphasis will be upon the provincial stage, in particular the Muslim majority province of the Punjab. In the period before 1919 the development of Muslim politics suggested that a specifically Muslim separatism orchestrated by the United Provinces had emerged upon the all-India stage. But the coming of the reforms reversed the situation of the preceding decades, and there was less incentive for Muslim politicians in the United Provinces to claim to be the spokesmen of Muslims in the nation. |
| تدمد: | 1469-8099 0026-749X |
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| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14698099 0026749X |
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