Constructing the ‘heartland’: Uttar Pradesh in India's body‐politic

Kudaisya, Gyanesh

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“…At the same time, they presented an alternative to the formation of a Muslim political party. Unlike in South India, where parties such as the Indian Union Muslim League and the MIM appeared to be legitimate political actors, 33 in North India, the former heartland of Muslim League, memories of partition hampered the formation of a new Muslim party (Kudaisya 2006). In this context, issuebased coalitions, which repeatedly invoked the Constitution to safeguard Muslims' minority rights, provided Muslims with another, more legitimate framework to defend their interests as a separate group.…”

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Crisis of the “Nehruvian Consensus” or Pluralization of Indian Politics? Aligarh Muslim University and the Demand for Minority Status

Gautier¹

2019

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Away from Aligarh's bustling old city, across the railway track which divides the city into "two adjacent towns" (Mann 1992:28), lies the sprawling campus of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). Bab-e-Syed, a grand gate made of sandstone and marble, acts as the visible frontier between the outside world and the venerable institution. Inside, the sherwanis that some students wear and the cusped arches and domes of older buildings give the campus a distinct mahaul (atmosphere) that further marks it out from the rest of the city.Although AMU occupies a separate, somehow peripheral space in Aligarh city, it remains for many a central symbol of Muslims' tahzeeb (culture) and socio-political status in India. From the very outset, Aligarh's founders projected their college-then known as the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College-as an all-India Muslim institution. Sir Syed 1 and his colleagues claimed to serve the interests of all Indian Muslims, even though in practice they mostly addressed North Indian ashraf 2 elites. After independence, many Aligarhians continued to see their alma mater as a source of pride for the community. To them, it epitomized Sir Syed's efforts to uplift Muslims and to preserve the legacy of the glorious Mughal past. By contrast, many outsiders regarded the institution with suspicion. Due to students and teachers' widespread support to Muslim League in the 1940s, AMU became a lieu de mémoire (memorial site) of partition and a symbol of so-called Muslim separatism (Brass 200. In either case, AMU was more than an educational institution. To its supporters and detractors alike, it appeared as a symbol of Muslims' position in India before and after independence. AMU therefore occupies a very special position in the Indian public sphere. It is simultaneously a central university, under control of the central government, and the Crisis of the "Nehruvian Consensus" or Pluralization of Indian Politics? Alig...

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“…Second, it showed that Congress could no longer take Muslim voters for granted. If neglected, they could ally with another minority-in this case the Scheduled Castes-to challenge the party's dominance, thereby opening the way to a pluralization of political forces in the former Congress "heartland" (Kudaisya 2006).…”

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Crisis of the “Nehruvian Consensus” or Pluralization of Indian Politics? Aligarh Muslim University and the Demand for Minority Status

Gautier¹

2019

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“…Some of the recent writings would include the ones authored by Hasan (1989), , Subramanian (1999), Chadha Behera (2000), Kumar (2000), Singh (2000), Prakash (2002), Widmalm (2002), Yagnik and Sheth (2005), Kudaisya (2006), Desai (2007), Pai (2010), Jha and Pushpendra (2014), Singh (2015b), Chowdhary (2016). They also show a defi nitive purpose as most take up one particular them or a set of related research questions.…”

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Rethinking State Politics in India

2016

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“…8 Moreover, the trauma of partition largely undermined the legitimacy of Muslim political parties, seen as responsible for the division of the subcontinent. This was particularly true in North India, the former "Muslim heartland" (Kudaisya 2006), where communal tensions remained rife. In this context, Muslim political parties came to represent only one form of Muslim representative body recognized by the state.…”

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The social space of Muslim spokespersons in India: A typology

Levesque¹,

Gautier²,

Belorgey³

2022

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Who speaks for Muslims in India? Who are the leaders of the so-called “Muslim organizations”? What family and educational background do they come from? What is their relation to state authorities? This article addresses these questions by presenting a unique biographical database and the results of statistical treatments (multiple correspondence analysis and hierarchical clustering on principal components) of this data. This database includes the office-bearers of a selected set of organizations that make representative claims in the name of Muslims in India. Our analysis thus delineates the contours of the social space of Muslim spokespersons in India and describes how it is structured. We will highlight the important distinctions that exist among these Muslim spokespersons, such as the opposition between secular figures and religious scholars, the political sphere and the educational sphere, and between central power and regional dynamics. This analysis allows us, more broadly, to examine the role of state authorities in the definition of the Muslim spokespersons, thus highlighting some of the characteristic features of state secularism in India.

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Constructing the ‘heartland’: Uttar Pradesh in India's body‐politic

Cited by 6 publications

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Crisis of the “Nehruvian Consensus” or Pluralization of Indian Politics? Aligarh Muslim University and the Demand for Minority Status

Crisis of the “Nehruvian Consensus” or Pluralization of Indian Politics? Aligarh Muslim University and the Demand for Minority Status

Rethinking State Politics in India

The social space of Muslim spokespersons in India: A typology

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