Muslims Against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan

The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and North East India. It led to an oversight of Muslim leaders and organizations which were opposed to this demand, predicating their opposition to the League on its understanding of the history and ideological content of the Muslim nation. This volume takes stock of multiple narratives about Muslim identity formation in the context of debates about partition, historicizes those narratives, and reads them in the light of the larger political milieu of the period. Focusing on the critiques of the Muslim League, its concept of the Muslim nation, and the political settlement demanded on its behalf, it studies how the movement for Pakistan inspired a contentious, influential conversation on the definition of the Muslim nation.

Author: Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/15/2017
Pages: 414
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.65w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781107166639

About the Author
Qasmi, Ali Usman: - Ali Usman Qasmi is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He is the author of Questioning the Authority of the Past: The Ahl al-Qur'an Movements in the Punjab (2012) and The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan (2015).Robb, Megan Eaton: - Megan Eaton Robb is Junior Research Fellow on the Atlas Project at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Junior Dean of New College, Oxford. She is interested in research on the history of the book, newsprint, publishing in South Asia, Urdu literature and translation, and the links between language and identity among Muslims in South Asia, the Middle East, and in the diaspora.