Sixty-some years after its emergence as an independent nation, controversy over the meaning and causes of the creation of Pakistan remains vibrant. Part of the controversy lies in conflicting interpretations of what happened in the run-up to the partition of India in 1947. For some the Pakistan movement was in fact neither nationalist nor religious. Perhaps the most powerful exponent of such a view of the Pakistan movement was Jawaharlal Nehru. The history of ...
Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia
This collection challenges the popular presumption that Muslims and Hindus are irreconcilably different groups, inevitably conflicting with each other. Invoking a new vocabulary that depicts a neglected substratum of Muslim-Hindu commonality, the contributors demonstrate how Indic and Islamicat world views overlap and often converge in the premodern history of South Asia. The term Islamicate refers to the broad expanse of Africa and Asia influenced by Muslim ...
