The Seedbed of Pakistan: Cultural Conflicts, Elite Muslim Anxieties and the Congress

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Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book argues that Pakistan, as a concept, implicitly emerged from the cultural and political insecurities of the ashrāf, or the upper strata of the Indian Muslim society, and certain political missteps of the Congress. Once the administrative elite of the Mughal Empire, the ashrāf inhabited a cultural paradigm manifested by it—it is termed Islamicate. There was a relative decline in the worldly fortunes of the ashrāf under British rule. On the other hand, the Islamicate cultural paradigm, once hegemonic in the ashrāf-dominated qasbās, or small towns, was increasingly imperilled with Hindus aggressively asserting their own cultural symbols. The colonial state exacerbated this volatile situation by introducing local self-government. Hindus, due to their advantage in numbers, used municipal politics to push their cultural agendas in the urban spaces. Consequently, an already insecure ashrāf grew wary of franchise-based political representation and opposed the Congress when it demanded the same at the provincial and central levels of British India. To bring them around, the Congress made some initial concessions which legitimised a distinct Muslim interest in Indian politics, while it later refused to substantively engage with this interest. Resultantly, it charted its own course through the ‘Simla Deputation’, the All-India Muslim League and, finally, the idea of Pakistan.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vitasta Publishing Private Limited; First Edition (10 April 2023); Vitasta Publishing Private Limited, 2/15 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi- 110002
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9390961890
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9390961894
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 320 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22 x 14 x 1.7 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 1 Count
Packer ‏ : ‎ Vitasta Publishing Private Limited, 2/15 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi- 110002
Generic Name ‏ : ‎ Book