Muslim India in Anglo-Indian Fiction

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In spite of being a global community of people, Muslims tend to be dismissed as peripheral if not actually injurious to modern civilization. The community as a whole is generally represented in the west as uninspired, unproductive, inflexible and violent. In serious, intellectual encounters, Muslims add up to only a marginal presence. The writer attempts to counteract these perceptions by analyzing the specific nature of such representations and exploring the hidden and manifest drives that caused Anglo-Indian fiction to cast Islam in these particular images. She examines the implications of these representations and suggests that a kind of deep-rooted fear of Islamic culture often led western writers to falsify their first-hand experiences of the Muslim world, even when they had close interactions with Muslims. The writer closely examines the representations of Muslim India in three Anglo-Indian texts: Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor, Kim by Rudtyard Kipling and A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. By way of comparison, she discusses the work of four Muslim authors contemporary with the Anglo-Indian authors in the study. Brief summaries of the Bangla novels — Meer Mosharraf Hussain’s Udasin Pathiker Moner Kotha, Najibur Rahman’s Anwara, Kazi Abdul Wadud’s Nadibakkhey, and Kazi Emdadul Haque’s Abdullah – have been appended.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Benazir Durdana

Benazir Durdana (21 June 1953 - 8 April 1998) was born in Dhaka where she had her early schooling.  After completing her intermediate, she enrolled in the Department of English, University of Dhaka.  After studying for two years in the department, she left for the United States, to study at Smith College.  Graduating from Smith College, she returned to Dhaka and joined the Department of English, University of Dhaka as lecturer.  On leave from the University of Dhaka, she completed her Master's from the University of Atlanta (1985).  Subsequently she did her Ph D from Ohio State University (1997) on Muslim India in Anglo-Indian fiction.  Diagnosed with cancer the year she completed her doctoral studies, Durdana passed away shortly afterwards leaving behind a husband and three children.

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Title
Muslim India in Anglo-Indian Fiction
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9847011500003
Length
x+294p., Notes; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
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