12. Prize-Winning Adab: A Study of Five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette Notification

Naim, C. M.

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Polygyny, Family and Sharafat: Discourses amongst North Indian Muslims, circa 1870–1918

Alam¹

2010

Mod. Asian Stud.

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While historians of South Asia have examined in elaborate detail critiques of sati and child marriage in the Hindu community, a similar approach to Muslim familial reform also needs serious attention. By investigating discourses on the question of polygyny 1 , this paper is an attempt in this direction. In the light of these discourses, the paper argues that polygyny, influenced by modern sensibilities of reform and social change, underwent different interpretations during the colonial period. The debate on polygyny was not homogenous and uniform and research reveals a plurality of viewpoints on the subject. The argument was often based on an assumption of sexual difference which, in some cases, emphasized the infertility and reproductive incapacity of the first wife, and in others, presented an idealization of domestic ideology where the second wife made the 'perfect' home. Simultaneously, there were also strong critiques of polygyny by women writers who underscored the misery of the first wife. These debates do not necessarily settle the question in favour of a particular position, but reflect a conversation held on marriage, children and family, and express how love, conjugality and affection were narrated in the public sphere.

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Polygyny, Family and Sharafat: Discourses amongst North Indian Muslims, circa 1870–1918

Alam¹

2010

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Islam at Home: Religion, Piety and Private Space in Muslim India and Victorian Britain,c. 1850–1905

Jones

2014

Stud. Church Hist.

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Allegiance is due, under God, to the head of the family from his dependents, as to a king; and though I confess with shame that I have been a weak and faithless ruler hitherto, the time has come for me to exert my authority in removing the abuses which I have allowed to creep into my jurisdiction … I have been close to death, and have realised that sooner or later I must give account to God not only for myself but for my family.In a bleak and diseased Delhi, sometime after the wanton British decimation of the city in the wake of the 1857 rebellion, a Muslim nobleman by the name of Nasuh succumbs to the city’s recent cholera epidemic. After Nasuh falls unconscious, his father, who had recendy died in the same outbreak, appears to him in a dream. He tells his son that a day of reckoning awaits, and that as a father it is Nasuh’s duty to inculcate piety in his home. Surviving his illness, Nasuh sets about correcting the excesses of the various members of his family. These include his eldest daughter, who had such foolish habits as playing all night at cards, reading romances and singing idle songs; and his three sons, who were neglectful of their religious duties, read unsuitable poetry, flew kites and kept company with scandalous friends. Despite these blemishes in their household lives, Nasuh is able to persuade some members of his family of the rightness of his vision, turning his children into (respectively) a God-fearing wife and mother, and upstanding gendemen with right manners and good government professions. All are thus rewarded both in this world and the hereafter.

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Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education in Colonial India

Powell¹

2011

Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India

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12. Prize-Winning Adab: A Study of Five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette Notification

Cited by 17 publications

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Polygyny, Family and Sharafat: Discourses amongst North Indian Muslims, circa 1870–1918

Polygyny, Family and Sharafat: Discourses amongst North Indian Muslims, circa 1870–1918

Islam at Home: Religion, Piety and Private Space in Muslim India and Victorian Britain,c. 1850–1905

Old Books in New Bindings: Ethics and Education in Colonial India

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