Table Of ContentGyanendra Pandey: Introduction; Part I: The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh 1920-40 Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Abbreviations; 1: The Bengal Muslims: Problems in Social Integration; 2: Fundamentalist Reform and the Rural Response; 3: Fundamentalists and Traditionalists: From Confrontation to Consensus; 4: A Crisis of Identity: Muslims or Bengalis?; 5: Education, Employment, and Social Mobilization; Towards PoliticalSolidarity and Communal Separatism; Conclusion; Notes and References; Appendices; Glossary; Part II:The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India Preface and Acknowledgements; Tables; Glossary;1: Introduction; 2: The Myth of Muslim Unity: Colonial and National Narratives; 3: Making a Separate Nation; 4: India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom; 5: Secularism: The Post-colonial Predicament; 6: Forging Secular Identities; 7: Boundaries: Modernist Interpretations and the New 'Intellectual Structures'; Select Bibiliography; Part III: Remembering Partition Preface to the Paperback Edition; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Note of Transliteration; Introduction; The Ulama inTransition; 1: 'Ulama in Transition: The Eighteenth Century; 2: The 'Ulama in Transition: The Early Nineteenth Century; The Deobandi Movement and School; 3: The Madrasah at Deoband; 4: The Style of ReligiousLeadership, I: Muftis and Shaikhs; 5: The Style of Religious Leadership, II: Writers and Debaters; 6: The Social Milieu of the Deobandi 'Ulama; Other movements of Renewal; 7: Alternative Tendencies within Sunni Islam: The Ahl-I Hadis and the Barelwis; 8: Further Alternatives: Aligarh and Nadwah; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography
SynopsisThis Omnibus brings together seminal writings of distinguished academic, Gyanendra Pandey. The introduction weaves together the three books and opens debates on questions of nationalism, communalism, violence, and identity politics. Each of these books provide comprehensive research on and critical insights into colonial and contemporary India., The proposed Omnibus brings together seminal writings of distinguished academician, Gyanendra Pandey. It consists of three books. The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1920-40 investigates the social contradictions, class forces, and efforts at political mobilization in Uttar Pradesh. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, charts out the history of the term communalism and the politics and attitudesit seeks to encapsulate. The second edition updates the discussion on communalism in a postcolonial world. Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India analyses questions of history andmemory, the nationalization of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered., This Omnibus brings together seminal writings of distinguished academician, Gyanendra Pandey, made up of three books. The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1920-40 investigates the social contradictions, class forces, and efforts at political mobilization in Uttar Pradesh. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, charts out the history of the term communalism and the politics and attitudes it seeks to encapsulate. The second edition updates the discussion on communalism in a postcolonial world. Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India analyses questions of history and memory, the nationalization of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered., This Omnibus brings together seminal writings of distinguished academician, Gyanendra Pandey, made up of three books. The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1920-40 investigates the social contradictions, class forces, and efforts at political mobilization in Uttar Pradesh. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India , charts out the history of the term communalism and the politics and attitudes it seeks to encapsulate. The second edition updates the discussion on communalism in a postcolonial world. Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India analyses questions of history and memory, the nationalization of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered.