Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan

doi:10.1017/9781316711224

The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders and organizations which were opposed to this demand, predicating their opposition to the League on its understanding of the history and ideological content of the Muslim nation. This volume takes stock of multiple narratives about Muslim identity formation in the context of debates about partition, historicizes those narratives, and reads them in the light of the larger political milieu of the period. Focusing on the critiques of the Muslim League, its concept of the Muslim nation, and the political settlement demanded on its behalf, it studies how the movement for Pakistan inspired a contentious, influential conversation on the definition of the Muslim nation.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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- By Ali Usman Qasmi, Assistant Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Megan Eaton Robb, Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies in University of Pennsylvania, USA
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1 - Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani and the Jami'at ‘Ulama-i- Hind: Against Pakistan, against the Muslim League
pp 35-64
- By Barbara D. Metcalf, historian who has written on a range of subjects related to South Asian Muslims.
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2 - The Partition Conundrum: Perspectives, Experiences and Ambiguities from qasbahs in India
pp 65-81
- By M. Raisur Rahman, historian of South Asia interested in social and cultural history of modern India and South Asian Islam
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3 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his Political Imagination: Pak Plan and the Continent of Dinia
pp 82-108
- By Tahir Kamran, Government College University, Lahore and was until recently Allama Iqbal Fellow at the University of Cambridge
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4 - Differentiating between Pakistan and Napak-istan: Maulana Abul Ala Maududi's Critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah
pp 109-141
- By Ali Usman Qasmi, Assistant Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences
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5 - Advising the Army of Allah: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Critique of the Muslim League
pp 142-168
- By Megan Eaton Robb, Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies in University of Pennsylvania, USA
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6 - The Illusory Promise of Freedom: Mian Iftikhar-ud-Din and the Movement for Pakistan
pp 169-189
- By Ali Raza, Assistant Professor at the department of History, Lahore University of Management Sciences
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7 - Visionary of Another Politics: Inayatullah Khan ‘al-Mashriqi’ and Pakistan
pp 190-219
- By Markus Daechsel, Reader at the Department of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London
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8 - Nonviolence, Pukhtunwali and Decolonization: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khuda'i Khidmatgar Politics of Friendship
pp 220-254
- By Safoora Arbab, doctoral scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
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9 - Islam, Communism and the Search for a Fiction
pp 255-284
- By Ammar Ali Jan, candidate in the History Faculty, University of Cambridge.
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10 - Muslim Nationalist or Nationalist Muslim? Allah Bakhsh Soomro and Muslim Politics in 1930s and 1940s Sindh
pp 285-310
- By Sarah Ansari, Professor of History at Royal Holloway College, University of London.
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11 - Dancing with the Enemy: Sikander Hayat Khan, Jinnah and the Vexed Question of ‘Pakistan’ in a Punjabi Unionist Context
pp 311-337
- By Newal Osman, Assistant Professor of South Asian History at the Social Science and Liberal Arts faculty in the Institute of Business Administration
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12 - Religion between Region and Nation: Rezaul Karim, Bengal, and Muslim Politics at the End of Empire
pp 338-349
- By Neilesh Bose, Assistant Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Global and Comparative History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada
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13 - ‘The Pakistan that is going to be Sunnistan’: Indian Shi'a Responses to the Pakistan Movement
pp 350-380
- By Justin Jones, Associate Professor in the Study of Religion, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
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14 - The Baluch Qaum of Kalat State: Challenging the Ideological and Territorial Boundaries of Pakistan
pp 381-398
- By Abdul Majeed, freelance writer focusing on the Political History of South Asia.
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Contributors
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Index
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-34

1 - Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani and the Jami'at ‘Ulama-i- Hind: Against Pakistan, against the Muslim League
pp 35-64

2 - The Partition Conundrum: Perspectives, Experiences and Ambiguities from qasbahs in India
pp 65-81

3 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his Political Imagination: Pak Plan and the Continent of Dinia
pp 82-108

4 - Differentiating between Pakistan and Napak-istan: Maulana Abul Ala Maududi's Critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah
pp 109-141

5 - Advising the Army of Allah: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Critique of the Muslim League
pp 142-168

6 - The Illusory Promise of Freedom: Mian Iftikhar-ud-Din and the Movement for Pakistan
pp 169-189

7 - Visionary of Another Politics: Inayatullah Khan ‘al-Mashriqi’ and Pakistan
pp 190-219

8 - Nonviolence, Pukhtunwali and Decolonization: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khuda'i Khidmatgar Politics of Friendship
pp 220-254

9 - Islam, Communism and the Search for a Fiction
pp 255-284

10 - Muslim Nationalist or Nationalist Muslim? Allah Bakhsh Soomro and Muslim Politics in 1930s and 1940s Sindh
pp 285-310

11 - Dancing with the Enemy: Sikander Hayat Khan, Jinnah and the Vexed Question of ‘Pakistan’ in a Punjabi Unionist Context
pp 311-337

12 - Religion between Region and Nation: Rezaul Karim, Bengal, and Muslim Politics at the End of Empire
pp 338-349

13 - ‘The Pakistan that is going to be Sunnistan’: Indian Shi'a Responses to the Pakistan Movement
pp 350-380

14 - The Baluch Qaum of Kalat State: Challenging the Ideological and Territorial Boundaries of Pakistan
pp 381-398

Contributors
pp 399-402

Index
pp 403-408

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