Remembering Malan
Reading representations of domestic servants in colonial Bihar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12985804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ufaque Paiker (0009-0008-3804-4515, Ashoka University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 498-513 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian History and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1947-2498 • E-ISSN: 1947-2501 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19472498.2022.2120245 |
| OpenAlex | W4294792873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper will discuss the construction of the ashraf identity through the representation of servants by a nineteenth-century Urdu poet of Bihar, Shad Azimabadi (1846–1927). Shad considered exclusivity of language and the distinctiveness of the master–servant relationship as a part of the adab culture (code of conduct) and the exclusivity of the ashraf. This exclusivity, however, underwent significant change amidst the economic decline that set in motion in the late nineteenth century within ashraf families. One of the significant changes was the redefinition of the master–servant relationship along the lines of caste. The transition from adab to caste will be traced through the memoir of Shad written by his grandson, Naqi Ahmad Irshad, and texts published in an Urdu newspaper, Al Punch, that contested the very claim of exclusivity of the ashraf
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Caste · Colonialism · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Memoir · Newspaper · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political science · Politics · Print culture · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Servant · Sociology · Urdu · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Literary Cultures in History
Moral Conduct and Authority
Polygyny, Family and Sharafat
Collaborative Wit
The boundary within
What is a Public? Notes from South Asia
Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars
Bihar, the colonial state and agricultural development in India, 1880-1920
Mobility, control and criminality in early colonial India, 1760s–1850s
Colonialization of the Indian Economy, 1757 - 1900
Who is the trueHalalkhor? Genealogy and ethics in dalit Muslim oral traditions
Crime in the Social Order of Colonial North India
Local Control in Indian Towns-the case of Allahabad 1880-1920
The Celebration of Failure as Dissent in Urdu Ghazal
The Kahar Chronicle
Peasants'choices? Indian agriculture and the limits of commercialization in nineteenth-century Bihar1
Aligarh's First Generation
Palanquin Symbolism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |