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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 at time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarising question…mehr

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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 at time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarising question
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Autorenporträt
Ali Khan Mahmudabad teaches history and political science at Ashoka University, india. He is a historian, political scientist, writer, columnist, and an occasional poet.He completed his MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK).He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and he writes a fortnightly column for the Urdu national daily, Inqilab and as well as writing for a number of English language magazines and newspapers.