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020			_a9781009358491
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100			_aGautier, Laurence _9752248
245			_aBetween nation and ‘community' : _bMuslim Universities and Indian politics after partition
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2024.
300			_axxii,467p.
520			_aThis book proposes a political history of Muslim universities in post-independence India, from 1947 to the 1990s. Based on a wide range of sources in English and in Urdu, it highlights the central role that these educational institutions played in the debates on national integration, secularism, minority rights and Muslim backwardness. After independence, Muslim universities found themselves at a critical juncture between central state authorities and India's Muslim population. As public and Muslim institutions, they were to participate in nation-building as much as in the development of the Muslim 'community'. By closely looking at the relation between these institutions and state authorities, the book teases out the ambiguities of the state's Muslim policy. It also examines, in turn, how university members responded to this policy and developed competing conceptions of Muslim identity and citizenship, which structured the wider public debates on Muslims' status in post-partition India.
650			_aGroup identity -- India -- History -- 20th century _9811133
650			_aHigher education and state -- India -- History -- 20th century _9811134
650			_aIndia -- History -- Partition _9811135
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999			_c1308948 _d1308948