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Title Muslims against the Muslim League : critiques of the idea of Pakistan / edited by Ali Usman Qasmi, Megan Eaton Robb
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 408 pages) : maps
Contents Introduction / Ali Usman Qasmi and Megan Eaton Robb -- Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani and the Jami'at 'Ulama-i-Hind : Against Pakistan, against the Muslim League / Barbara D. Metcalf -- The Partition Conundrum : Perspectives, Experiences and Ambiguities from qasbahs in India / M. Raisur Rahman -- Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his Political Imagination : Pak Plan and the Continent of Dinia / Tahir Kamran -- Differentiating Between Pakistan and Napak-istan : Maulana Abul Ala Maududi's Critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah / Ali Usman Qasmi -- Advising the Army of Allah : Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Critique of the Muslim League / Megan Eaton Robb -- The Illusory Promise of Freedom : Mian Iftikhar-ud-Din and the Movement for Pakistan / Ali Raza -- Visionary of Another Politics : Inayatullah Khan 'al-Mashriqi' and Pakistan / Markus Daechsel -- Nonviolence, Pukhtunwali and Decolonization : Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khuda'i Khidmatgar Politics of Friendship / Safoora Arbab -- Islam, Communism and the Search for a Fiction / Ammar Ali Jan -- Muslim Nationalist or Nationalist Muslim? : Allah Bakhsh Soomro and Muslim Politics in 1930s and 1940s Sindh / Sarah Ansari -- Dancing with the Enemy : Sikander Hayat Khan, Jinnah and the Vexed Question of 'Pakistan' in a Punjabi Unionist Context / Newal Osman -- Religion between Region and Nation : Rezaul Karim, Bengal, and Muslim Politics at the End of Empire / Neilesh Bose -- 'The Pakistan that is going to be Sunnistan' : Indian Shi'a Responses to the Pakistan Movement / Justin Jones -- The Baluch Qaum of Kalat State : Challenging the Ideological and Territorial Boundaries of Pakistan / Abdul Majeed
Summary "Discusses the dynamics of the Indian freedom movement during the 1940s from the perspective of those Muslim leaders and political parties who opposed the idea of a separate state for South Asian Muslims, or whose primary engagement with Muslim League activities treated separatism as marginal to their political agenda"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pakistan movement.
Muslims -- Political activity -- India -- History -- 20th century
Islam and politics -- India -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Islam and politics
Muslims -- Political activity
Pakistan movement
Politics and government
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064942
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Qasmi, Ali Usman, editor
Robb, Megan Eaton, editor
ISBN 9781108621236
1108621236
9781316711224
1316711226