Gail Minault
Biographic Data
| ID | 733637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Minault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Minault |
| SIGNATURE | MINAULT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
East Indian misfortunes
Nothing in William Fraser's life in India is better known than his leaving of it. In March 1835, after 30 years in India, Fraser, then the East India Company's chief representative in Delhi, was gunned down by an assassin. The story of Fraser's murder is well covered in history. However, far more of Fraser's life in India—and that of his brothers—is discernible through their letters home to their family in Reelig, outside Inverness in Scotland. T…
Jamal Mian
Jamal Mian: The Life of Maulana Jamaluddin Abdul Wahab of Firangi Mahall, 1919-2012. By Francis Robinon. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxv + 429. $29.95, £22.99
M. Reza Pirbhai. Fatima Jinnah
I had reservations when I saw the subtitle of this book, “Mother of the Nation,” which smacks of hagiography. I was encouraged, however, when the author contrasted his work with other books about Fatima Jinnah that used the honorific in question, Madar-i Millat. M. Reza Pirbhai seeks in this biography to place Fatima Jinnah’s life in the context of her times and to relate her actions to those of other well-educated Muslim women active in the Paki…
Aloys Sprenger
Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893) was an Austrian scholar with a medical degree who joined the British East India Company’s medical service in order to pursue in India his real passion, the study of oriental literatures. He became the Principal of Delhi College in 1845, and presided over an experiment in learning at Delhi College, an institution that taught both eastern and western literatures and sciences through the medium of Urdu. The college attempt…
Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage
Sulṭān Jahān, the Begam of Bhopal (r. 1901–26), was a tiny woman who ruled a tiny state in Central India. During her lifetime, she was frequently compared to another tiny woman who ruled over a mighty empire in the nineteenth century. The comparison between Sulṭān Jahān and Victoria, seemingly incongruous, is not inapt, for the Begam was a powerful and influential individual. By her oratory, her organizational skill, and especially her patronage,…
Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History 1760-1860
Relationships between colonialists and the colonised peoples are often ambivalent – but always fascinating. This edited volume explores the issues of cultural reciprocity between Europeans and South Asians during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860. In doing so, prevailing assumptions about these complex relationships are examined. Part I examines a variety of themes in reciprocal encounter, such as class structures, urban landscape, Anglo-Musli…
The Khilafat movement
Women's Magazines in Urdu as Sources for Muslim Social History
The educative power of the printed word has been causatively linked to the emergence of the Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe (Davis 1975; Eisenstein 1979) and to the creation of national identities all over the world (Anderson 1983). In India in the 19th and 20th centuries, the printing press similarly changed the nature of social discourses. While oral performance and word-of-mouth communication remained of paramount importance in a soc…
Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity
Research Article| August 01 1997 Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity Gail Minault Gail Minault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gail Minault; Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Afri…
The Indian Nationalist Movement c. 1912-22
Abul Kalam Azad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ranks with Nehru and Jinnah in the political and intellectual history of modern India. His role in the Indian struggle for independence is well known, but, as this biography shows, he also made lasting contributions to Urdu prose literature as one of the foremost Islamic intellectuals and scholars of his time and was, in addition, a remarkably skilful and successful journalist as well as India's first Education Minister
Sayyid Mumtaz Ali and 'Huquq un-Niswan
Sometime in the late 1890s, Sayyid Mumtaz Ali visited Aligarh and happened to show Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan the manuscript of his treatise in defense of women's rights in Islamic law, Huquq un-Niswan. As he began to read it, Sir Sayyid looked shocked. He then opened it to a second place and his face turned red. As he read it at a third place, his hands started to tremble. Finally, he tore up the manuscript and threw it into the wastepaper basket. Fo…
Memoirs of an Indian Woman
Legal and Scholarly Activism
Women's studies an interdisciplinary area of inquiry is a recent phenomenon in India. Some scholars view women's studies as a harmless fad; others see it as a threat to the intellectual integrity of disciplines, or at least to the male domination of faculties. Women's studies certainly questions the androcentric assumptions of many scholarly fields and seeks a greater piece of the academic pie for women scholars, but that is not the whole story. …
Islamin India
Jinnah of Pakistan
Making invisible women visible
(1986). Making invisible women visible: Studying the history of Muslim women in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-13
Modern India. The Origins of an Asian Democracy
Women's education and social change among indian Muslims in historical perspective
(1985). Women's education and social change among indian Muslims in historical perspective. Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 88-97
II Some reflections on Islamic revivalism vs. assimilation among Muslims in India
The Khilafat Movement. Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India
The Bohras
Urdu Political Poetry during the Khilafat Movement
The Khilafat movement, which took place among Indian Muslims immediately following the First World War, was so called because it was a political agitation designed to pressure the British government to preserve the defeated Ottoman Empire and its ruler, the Caliph of Islam. The Khilafat movement was also, more fundamentally, a campaign to unite Indian Muslims politically by means of religious and cultural symbols meaningful to all strata of the c…
The Campaign for a Muslim University, 1898-1920
The campaign to establish a Muslim University at Aligarh is a good example of the confluence of education and politics in modern India. The political motives involved were similar to those that lay behind the founding of the Mahomedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875: a sense that English education was a prerequisite to enfranchisement. By the turn of the century, the stakes were higher and the interests involved had expanded in number and complexi…
The Campaign for a Muslim University, 1898-1920
The campaign to establish a Muslim University at Aligarh is a good example of the confluence of education and politics in modern India. The political motives involved were similar to those that lay behind the founding of the Mahomedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875: a sense that English education was a prerequisite to enfranchisement. By the turn of the century, the stakes were higher and the interests involved had expanded in number and complexi…
Sayyid Mumtaz Ali and 'Huquq un-Niswan
Sometime in the late 1890s, Sayyid Mumtaz Ali visited Aligarh and happened to show Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan the manuscript of his treatise in defense of women's rights in Islamic law, Huquq un-Niswan. As he began to read it, Sir Sayyid looked shocked. He then opened it to a second place and his face turned red. As he read it at a third place, his hands started to tremble. Finally, he tore up the manuscript and threw it into the wastepaper basket. Fo…
II Some reflections on Islamic revivalism vs. assimilation among Muslims in India
Urdu Political Poetry during the Khilafat Movement
The Khilafat movement, which took place among Indian Muslims immediately following the First World War, was so called because it was a political agitation designed to pressure the British government to preserve the defeated Ottoman Empire and its ruler, the Caliph of Islam. The Khilafat movement was also, more fundamentally, a campaign to unite Indian Muslims politically by means of religious and cultural symbols meaningful to all strata of the c…
Making invisible women visible
(1986). Making invisible women visible: Studying the history of Muslim women in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-13
Modern India. The Origins of an Asian Democracy
Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History 1760-1860
Relationships between colonialists and the colonised peoples are often ambivalent – but always fascinating. This edited volume explores the issues of cultural reciprocity between Europeans and South Asians during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860. In doing so, prevailing assumptions about these complex relationships are examined. Part I examines a variety of themes in reciprocal encounter, such as class structures, urban landscape, Anglo-Musli…
Women's Magazines in Urdu as Sources for Muslim Social History
The educative power of the printed word has been causatively linked to the emergence of the Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe (Davis 1975; Eisenstein 1979) and to the creation of national identities all over the world (Anderson 1983). In India in the 19th and 20th centuries, the printing press similarly changed the nature of social discourses. While oral performance and word-of-mouth communication remained of paramount importance in a soc…
Aloys Sprenger
Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893) was an Austrian scholar with a medical degree who joined the British East India Company’s medical service in order to pursue in India his real passion, the study of oriental literatures. He became the Principal of Delhi College in 1845, and presided over an experiment in learning at Delhi College, an institution that taught both eastern and western literatures and sciences through the medium of Urdu. The college attempt…
Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity
Research Article| August 01 1997 Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity Gail Minault Gail Minault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gail Minault; Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Afri…
Legal and Scholarly Activism
Women's studies an interdisciplinary area of inquiry is a recent phenomenon in India. Some scholars view women's studies as a harmless fad; others see it as a threat to the intellectual integrity of disciplines, or at least to the male domination of faculties. Women's studies certainly questions the androcentric assumptions of many scholarly fields and seeks a greater piece of the academic pie for women scholars, but that is not the whole story. …
Urdu Political Poetry during the Khilafat Movement
The Khilafat movement, which took place among Indian Muslims immediately following the First World War, was so called because it was a political agitation designed to pressure the British government to preserve the defeated Ottoman Empire and its ruler, the Caliph of Islam. The Khilafat movement was also, more fundamentally, a campaign to unite Indian Muslims politically by means of religious and cultural symbols meaningful to all strata of the c…
The Campaign for a Muslim University, 1898-1920
The campaign to establish a Muslim University at Aligarh is a good example of the confluence of education and politics in modern India. The political motives involved were similar to those that lay behind the founding of the Mahomedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875: a sense that English education was a prerequisite to enfranchisement. By the turn of the century, the stakes were higher and the interests involved had expanded in number and complexi…
The Bohras
The Khilafat Movement. Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India
II Some reflections on Islamic revivalism vs. assimilation among Muslims in India
Women's education and social change among indian Muslims in historical perspective
(1985). Women's education and social change among indian Muslims in historical perspective. Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 88-97
Making invisible women visible
(1986). Making invisible women visible: Studying the history of Muslim women in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-13
Modern India. The Origins of an Asian Democracy
Islamin India
Jinnah of Pakistan
Legal and Scholarly Activism
Women's studies an interdisciplinary area of inquiry is a recent phenomenon in India. Some scholars view women's studies as a harmless fad; others see it as a threat to the intellectual integrity of disciplines, or at least to the male domination of faculties. Women's studies certainly questions the androcentric assumptions of many scholarly fields and seeks a greater piece of the academic pie for women scholars, but that is not the whole story. …
Abul Kalam Azad
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ranks with Nehru and Jinnah in the political and intellectual history of modern India. His role in the Indian struggle for independence is well known, but, as this biography shows, he also made lasting contributions to Urdu prose literature as one of the foremost Islamic intellectuals and scholars of his time and was, in addition, a remarkably skilful and successful journalist as well as India's first Education Minister
Sayyid Mumtaz Ali and 'Huquq un-Niswan
Sometime in the late 1890s, Sayyid Mumtaz Ali visited Aligarh and happened to show Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan the manuscript of his treatise in defense of women's rights in Islamic law, Huquq un-Niswan. As he began to read it, Sir Sayyid looked shocked. He then opened it to a second place and his face turned red. As he read it at a third place, his hands started to tremble. Finally, he tore up the manuscript and threw it into the wastepaper basket. Fo…
Memoirs of an Indian Woman
The Indian Nationalist Movement c. 1912-22
Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity
Research Article| August 01 1997 Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity Gail Minault Gail Minault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gail Minault; Women, Legal Reform, and Muslim Identity. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Afri…
Women's Magazines in Urdu as Sources for Muslim Social History
The educative power of the printed word has been causatively linked to the emergence of the Renaissance and the Reformation in Europe (Davis 1975; Eisenstein 1979) and to the creation of national identities all over the world (Anderson 1983). In India in the 19th and 20th centuries, the printing press similarly changed the nature of social discourses. While oral performance and word-of-mouth communication remained of paramount importance in a soc…
The Khilafat movement
Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History 1760-1860
Relationships between colonialists and the colonised peoples are often ambivalent – but always fascinating. This edited volume explores the issues of cultural reciprocity between Europeans and South Asians during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860. In doing so, prevailing assumptions about these complex relationships are examined. Part I examines a variety of themes in reciprocal encounter, such as class structures, urban landscape, Anglo-Musli…
Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage
Sulṭān Jahān, the Begam of Bhopal (r. 1901–26), was a tiny woman who ruled a tiny state in Central India. During her lifetime, she was frequently compared to another tiny woman who ruled over a mighty empire in the nineteenth century. The comparison between Sulṭān Jahān and Victoria, seemingly incongruous, is not inapt, for the Begam was a powerful and influential individual. By her oratory, her organizational skill, and especially her patronage,…
Aloys Sprenger
Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893) was an Austrian scholar with a medical degree who joined the British East India Company’s medical service in order to pursue in India his real passion, the study of oriental literatures. He became the Principal of Delhi College in 1845, and presided over an experiment in learning at Delhi College, an institution that taught both eastern and western literatures and sciences through the medium of Urdu. The college attempt…
M. Reza Pirbhai. Fatima Jinnah
I had reservations when I saw the subtitle of this book, “Mother of the Nation,” which smacks of hagiography. I was encouraged, however, when the author contrasted his work with other books about Fatima Jinnah that used the honorific in question, Madar-i Millat. M. Reza Pirbhai seeks in this biography to place Fatima Jinnah’s life in the context of her times and to relate her actions to those of other well-educated Muslim women active in the Paki…
Jamal Mian
Jamal Mian: The Life of Maulana Jamaluddin Abdul Wahab of Firangi Mahall, 1919-2012. By Francis Robinon. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxv + 429. $29.95, £22.99
East Indian misfortunes
Nothing in William Fraser's life in India is better known than his leaving of it. In March 1835, after 30 years in India, Fraser, then the East India Company's chief representative in Delhi, was gunned down by an assassin. The story of Fraser's murder is well covered in history. However, far more of Fraser's life in India—and that of his brothers—is discernible through their letters home to their family in Reelig, outside Inverness in Scotland. T…
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