M Reza Pirbhai
Biographic Data
| ID | 1480165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Reza Pirbhai |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Reza |
| FAMILY NAME | Pirbhai |
| SIGNATURE | PIRBHAI M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University in Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7511-254X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between Kukas and Colonisers
Chapter 8 ‘Sword of the Two Sanctuaries’
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean
This book examines the role of Muslim communities in the emergence of connections and mobilities across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée perspective. Spanning the 7th century through the medieval period until the present day, this book aims to move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions to highlight different aspects of interconnectivity in relation to Islam. Analysing textual and material evidence, contributors examine iden…
Fatima Jinnah
Although fifty years have passed since the death of Fatima Jinnah - author, activist and stateswoman known in Pakistan as the 'mother of the nation' - this is the first scholarly biography to tackle her life in full. Her background and contribution to Muslim nationalism under the British Raj, as well as her various efforts to consolidate the state, including a run for president in 1964, are told through previously untapped archival sources. Exami…
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing , edited by Varun Gulati and Mythili Anoop, examines some of India’s canonical figures, including Ismat Chughtai, Anita Desai, Narmita Ghokale, Manju Kapur, Manjula Padmanabhan and Nayantra Sahgal, as well as diasporic writers Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri and Shani Mooto. The collection is organized in three sections: Section I, “Dwelling in the Archive: Historical Representations,” includes five c…
From Purdah to Parliament
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 …
Pathologies of paradise
Supriya Nair’s new book ends by gesturing towards a future that, while uncertain, promises ‘a new script’ with a ‘fresh cast of actors, heroes, and villains’, but that is also certain to be guided
Pakistan and the Political Awakening of a Muslim ‘New Woman’ 1937–1947
Although many women participated in the Pakistan Movement (1937–1947) with significant effect, their role is only incidentally considered in major monographs, and virtually unpublished in the realm of articles. This essay seeks to begin the redress of this oversight by focusing on the lives and works of three leading women of the Muslim League, and two who found its message appealing enough to leave India when Pakistan was established in 1947. Pl…
Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam
This insightful book, useful to scholars and students of Islamic and SouthAsian history, illuminates the place of Islamic thought and institutions in thepolitical regimes of the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526). Finding late approachesto the historiography of the period unduly focused on “fact” and “fiction,”rather than “meaning,” the author unravels the more complex relationshipbetween history and historiography in six pertinent chapters (p. xix). Th…
Empire and I
Framed in a discussion of post-colonial approaches to the British Empire's influence on culture, a close reading of Captain Donald Campbell's late eighteenth-century travelogue contextualises the personal particularities in his assessments of Habsburg Europe, Ottoman West Asia and Mysorean/British South Asia. His is an imagination in which the bonds of ‘religion’ ameliorate the ‘otherness’ of continental Europeans, while his concept of ‘enlighten…
Global Concerns and Pakistan's Domestic Context
Sunshine Guarantee
The Jahaji-Bhain Principle
This paper provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades. The survey examines the way these novels critically map the trajectory of Indo-Caribbean women’s lives from the moment of colonial servitude to the post-colonial present, through highly individuated expressions of Indian female subjectivity, in a context where sexual and racial politics have so often o…
Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context
Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically 'legalistic' and Muslims as uniformly 'transgressive' when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresentations of pre-colonial Muslim norms and undue emphasis on colonial reforms alone when charting the course to post-coloniality. This book presents and chall…
Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture
Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji
Demons in Hindutva
This article explores the vast body of English language works on Hinduism published since 1981 by Voice of India—an influential right-wing Hindu publishing house headquartered in New Delhi, but contributed to by Indians at “home” and in diasporic communities, as well as Europeans and North Americans. Focus on the construction of the Hindu “Self” and the non-Hindu “Other” shows the manner in which European thought, primarily represented by the con…
Pakistan and the Political Awakening of a Muslim ‘New Woman’ 1937–1947
Although many women participated in the Pakistan Movement (1937–1947) with significant effect, their role is only incidentally considered in major monographs, and virtually unpublished in the realm of articles. This essay seeks to begin the redress of this oversight by focusing on the lives and works of three leading women of the Muslim League, and two who found its message appealing enough to leave India when Pakistan was established in 1947. Pl…
The Jahaji-Bhain Principle
This paper provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades. The survey examines the way these novels critically map the trajectory of Indo-Caribbean women’s lives from the moment of colonial servitude to the post-colonial present, through highly individuated expressions of Indian female subjectivity, in a context where sexual and racial politics have so often o…
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean
This book examines the role of Muslim communities in the emergence of connections and mobilities across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée perspective. Spanning the 7th century through the medieval period until the present day, this book aims to move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions to highlight different aspects of interconnectivity in relation to Islam. Analysing textual and material evidence, contributors examine iden…
Demons in Hindutva
This article explores the vast body of English language works on Hinduism published since 1981 by Voice of India—an influential right-wing Hindu publishing house headquartered in New Delhi, but contributed to by Indians at “home” and in diasporic communities, as well as Europeans and North Americans. Focus on the construction of the Hindu “Self” and the non-Hindu “Other” shows the manner in which European thought, primarily represented by the con…
Demons in Hindutva
This article explores the vast body of English language works on Hinduism published since 1981 by Voice of India—an influential right-wing Hindu publishing house headquartered in New Delhi, but contributed to by Indians at “home” and in diasporic communities, as well as Europeans and North Americans. Focus on the construction of the Hindu “Self” and the non-Hindu “Other” shows the manner in which European thought, primarily represented by the con…
Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context
Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically 'legalistic' and Muslims as uniformly 'transgressive' when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresentations of pre-colonial Muslim norms and undue emphasis on colonial reforms alone when charting the course to post-coloniality. This book presents and chall…
Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture
Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji
Sunshine Guarantee
The Jahaji-Bhain Principle
This paper provides the first critical survey of the Indo-Caribbean women’s novel, a distinct sub-genre which now spans approximately two decades. The survey examines the way these novels critically map the trajectory of Indo-Caribbean women’s lives from the moment of colonial servitude to the post-colonial present, through highly individuated expressions of Indian female subjectivity, in a context where sexual and racial politics have so often o…
Global Concerns and Pakistan's Domestic Context
Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam
This insightful book, useful to scholars and students of Islamic and SouthAsian history, illuminates the place of Islamic thought and institutions in thepolitical regimes of the Delhi Sultanate (1206-1526). Finding late approachesto the historiography of the period unduly focused on “fact” and “fiction,”rather than “meaning,” the author unravels the more complex relationshipbetween history and historiography in six pertinent chapters (p. xix). Th…
Empire and I
Framed in a discussion of post-colonial approaches to the British Empire's influence on culture, a close reading of Captain Donald Campbell's late eighteenth-century travelogue contextualises the personal particularities in his assessments of Habsburg Europe, Ottoman West Asia and Mysorean/British South Asia. His is an imagination in which the bonds of ‘religion’ ameliorate the ‘otherness’ of continental Europeans, while his concept of ‘enlighten…
Pakistan and the Political Awakening of a Muslim ‘New Woman’ 1937–1947
Although many women participated in the Pakistan Movement (1937–1947) with significant effect, their role is only incidentally considered in major monographs, and virtually unpublished in the realm of articles. This essay seeks to begin the redress of this oversight by focusing on the lives and works of three leading women of the Muslim League, and two who found its message appealing enough to leave India when Pakistan was established in 1947. Pl…
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing
Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing , edited by Varun Gulati and Mythili Anoop, examines some of India’s canonical figures, including Ismat Chughtai, Anita Desai, Narmita Ghokale, Manju Kapur, Manjula Padmanabhan and Nayantra Sahgal, as well as diasporic writers Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri and Shani Mooto. The collection is organized in three sections: Section I, “Dwelling in the Archive: Historical Representations,” includes five c…
From Purdah to Parliament
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 …
Pathologies of paradise
Supriya Nair’s new book ends by gesturing towards a future that, while uncertain, promises ‘a new script’ with a ‘fresh cast of actors, heroes, and villains’, but that is also certain to be guided
Fatima Jinnah
Although fifty years have passed since the death of Fatima Jinnah - author, activist and stateswoman known in Pakistan as the 'mother of the nation' - this is the first scholarly biography to tackle her life in full. Her background and contribution to Muslim nationalism under the British Raj, as well as her various efforts to consolidate the state, including a run for president in 1964, are told through previously untapped archival sources. Exami…
Chapter 8 ‘Sword of the Two Sanctuaries’
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean
This book examines the role of Muslim communities in the emergence of connections and mobilities across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée perspective. Spanning the 7th century through the medieval period until the present day, this book aims to move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions to highlight different aspects of interconnectivity in relation to Islam. Analysing textual and material evidence, contributors examine iden…
Between Kukas and Colonisers
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