‘From Purdah to Parliament’

Hawwa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-309
Author(s):  
M. Reza Pirbhai
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Social Activist ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian History

Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani author, politician, diplomat and social-activist whose life bridges the late colonial and post-colonial phases of South Asian history. Her biography illustrates the discursive pressures shaping the lives of upper and intermediate class men and women of her generation, particularly as manifested in the unquestioned tropes of modernization theory. However, the same life reveals that her notion of the tradition-modernity dichotomy does not extend to the equation of Islam with tradition. The secular-religious divide, in fact, does not feature in her thought or activism at all. The latter activism also problematizes the assumption that Muslim women, any more of less than non-Muslims, are marginal or peripheral players in the history of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Contextual interpretation of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Concept of Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Hajra Salim ◽  
Abdul Rashid Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
Great Leader ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Concept ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Freedom Movement

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the most controversial, misinterpreted and misunderstood personality in the South Asian history of Freedom Movement. Not only Indian and British historians but also Pakistanis historians are confused about his sect and beliefs. Jinnah’s figure was buried under the layers of propaganda. This is the most contentious discussed issue in Pakistan among the different scholars. Both right and left wing intellectuals sought legitimacy of their views with the vision of Jinnah, either the Jinnah was secular or Islamist. The object of the purposed research paper is to analyze and understand the Religious Concept of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and also explore his concept of Islam to resolve the problematic condition of the nature of Pakistani state. Contextual interpretation of Struggle Movement has great importance for analyzing the character and active participation of our great leader and also necessary for removing the misunderstandings about his personality. Different historians, intellectuals, scholars and thinkers are doing their best to prove him a secular or Islamist leader according to their own point of view and perception with the references of his speeches, statements, different events of his life and from his works. His personality was interpreted by the historians from different angles and aspects to clear the questions that were raised in their minds about his secularism.

C. A. Bayly and the Question of Indian Political Thought

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 867-877
Author(s):  
ANDREW SARTORI
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Final Work

AbstractThis article reflects on C. A. Bayly's legacy, with particular attention to his late turn to the history of Indian political thought. It highlights the force of his attempt to approach South Asian history with a keen eye to its specificity without correlatively compromising his attention to questions of comparability. It also highlights some of the conceptual and methodological dilemmas with which his final work confronts us.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rohan Deb Roy ◽  
Guy N.A. Attewell
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian History

This introductory chapter defines the intellectual agenda of locating the medical, and explains its significance. It situates the volume as a platform for the traffic of ideas and approaches between the history of medicine as a sub-discipline and South Asian history, more generally. It sets out recent historiographical trajectories, examines the theoretical purchase of historical ontologies (as the methodological inspiration) for this project, and provides a brief outline of chapters in this collection.

Partition, Pakistan, and South Asian History: In Search of a Narrative

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1068-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gilmartin
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
British India ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
Indian Nationalism ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian History

Few events have been more important to the history of modern South Asia than the partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947. The coming of partition has cast a powerful shadow on historical reconstructions of the decades before 1947, while the ramifications of partition have continued to leave their mark on subcontinental politics fifty years after the event.Yet, neither scholars of British India nor scholars of Indian nationalism have been able to find a compelling place for partition within their larger historical narratives (Pandey 1994, 204–5). For many British empire historians, partition has been treated as an illustration of the failure of the “modernizing” impact of colonial rule, an unpleasant blip on the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial worlds. For many nationalist Indian historians, it resulted from the distorting impact of colonialism itself on the transition to nationalism and modernity, “the unfortunate outcome of sectarian and separatist politics,” and “a tragic accompaniment to the exhilaration and promise of a freedom fought for with courage and valour” (Menon and Bhasin 1998, 3).

Purba Pakistan Zindabad: Bengali Visions of Pakistan, 1940–1947

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEILESH BOSE
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Bengali Language

AbstractThis paper details the history of the concept of Pakistan as debated by Bengali intellectuals and literary critics from 1940–1947. Historians of late colonial South Asia and analysts of Pakistan have focused on the Punjab along with colonial Indian ‘Muslim minority’ provinces and their spokesmen like Muhammed Ali Jinnah, to the exclusion of the cultural and intellectual aspects of Bengali conceptions of the Pakistan idea. When Bengal has come into focus, the spotlight has centred on politicians like Fazlul Huq or Hassan Shahid Suhrawardy. This paper aims to provide a corrective to this lacuna by analyzing Bengali Muslim conceptualizations of the idea of Pakistan. Bengali Muslim thinkers, such as Abul Mansur Ahmed, Abul Kalam Shamsuddin, and Farrukh Ahmed, blended concepts of Pakistan inside locally grounded histories of the Bengali language and literature and worked within disciplines of geography and political economy. Many Bengali Muslim writers from 1940 to 1947 creatively integrated concepts of Pakistan in poetry, updating an older Bengali literary tradition begun in earlier generations. Through a discussion of the social history of its emergence along with the role of geography, political thought, and poetry, this paper discusses the significance of ‘Pak-Bangla’ cultural nationalism within late colonial South Asian history.

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