Title Law and Muslim political thought in late Colonial North India / Adeel Hussain

Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Summary During the 1930s, much of the world was in severe economic and political crises. These upheavals ushered in new ways of thinking about social and political conditions. In some cases, these new ideas transformed entire political systems. Particularly in Europe, these transformations are well chronicled in scholarship. In scholarly writings on India, however, Muslim political thought has gone relatively unnoticed during this eventful decade. Instead, scholarship on Muslim India has so far privileged the early 1920s, where a movement to uphold the caliphate after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire briefly united Hindus and Muslims under Gandhi, and on the Pakistan movement of the 1940s. This book seeks to fill this gap. It maps the evolution of Muslim legal and political thought from roughly 1927 to 1940. By looking at landmark legal decisions in tandem with the political ideas of Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding fathers, this book highlights the more concealed ways in which Indian Muslims began to acquire a political outlook with distinctly separatist aspirations. What makes this period worthy of a separate study is that the legal antagonism between religious communities in the 1930s foreshadowed political conflicts that arose in the run-up to independence in 1947. The presented cases and thinkers reflect the possibilities and limitations of Muslim political thought in colonial India Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 16, 2022) Subject Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir, 1877-1938 -- Political and social views Jinnah, Mahomed Ali, 1876-1948 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir, 1877-1938 fast Jinnah, Mahomed Ali, 1876-1948 fast Subject Islam and politics -- India -- History -- 20th century Muslims -- Political activity -- India -- History -- 20th century Law -- Political aspects -- India -- History -- 20th century Political science -- India -- Philosophy Islam and politics Law -- Political aspects Muslims -- Political activity Political and social views Political science -- Philosophy Politics and government SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064942 India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915 Subject India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191953071 0191953075 9780192859778 0192859773

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