The Language of Secular Islam : : Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India / / Kavita Datla.
During the turbulent period prior to colonial India's partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 4 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Muslims and Secular Education: The Beginnings of Osmania University
- Chapter 2. Reforming a Language: Creating Textbooks and Cultivating Urdu
- Chapter 3. Muslim Pasts: Writing The History of India and The History of Islam
- Chapter 4. Locating Urdu Deccani, Hindustani, and Urdu
- Chapter 5. Secular Projects and Student Politics: "Vande Mataram" in Hyderabad
- Conclusion: From National to Minority Subjects
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index