Rethinking Majlis’ politics
Pre-1948 Muslim concerns in Hyderabad State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8961730 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M A Moid (Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, corresponding author), A Suneetha (0000-0002-9793-7937, Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-52 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019464617745929 |
| OpenAlex | W2790910713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In the historiography of Hyderabad State, pre-1948 Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (Majlis) figures as a separatist, communal and fanatical political formation. For the nationalist, Hindu and left politics in this region, Majlis has long stood for the ‘other’, wherein concerns articulated by it get discredited. In this article, we argue that there is a need to rethink the Majlis’ political perspective and its articulation of Muslim concerns by placing them in the context of the momentous political developments in the first half of the twentieth century. Caught between the imminent decline of the Asaf Jahi kingdom and the arrival of democratic politics, the Majlis saw the necessity of popular will but also the dangers of majoritarianism during such transitions and fought against the threat of imminent minoritisation of Muslims in the Hyderabad State. This article draws on the Urdu writings on the Majlis and Bahadur Yar Jung’s speeches that have been rarely used in Telugu or English writings on this period
Archaeology · Art · Articulation (sociology · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Historiography · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Urdu · Gender Studies · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |