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Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950

Poetry of Belonging: Muslim Imaginings of India 1850-1950

Ali Khan Mahmudabad
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ISBN 13
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9780190121013
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2020
This book engages with the question of Muslim rootedness in India. It uses various Muslim 'voices' in north India to explore imaginings of the local, regional, and transnational at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Using poetry as an archive and the site of its performance, the musha'irah, as a way of understanding public spaces, the book charts changing understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian. Perhaps this will offer a new way of thinking about these relationships, especially at a time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarising question.