Popular culture, radical egalitarianism, and formations of Muslim selfhood in South Asia

Caron, James; Dasgupta, Ananya

doi:10.1080/19472498.2016.1143666

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“…Islamic Socialism is either or a secondary concern in these investigations. Similarly, despite opening histories of the Left to questions of caste (More, 2020; Shaikh, 2021), gender (Loomba, 2018), and language (Gupta, 2021; Shaikh, 2011), and acknowledgement of the centrality of Muslim characters in origins of the Left, Islam remains “incidental” to those narratives (Caron & Dasgupta, 2016).…”

Section: A Brief History Of Islamic Socialism In 20th Century South Asiamentioning

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“…Recent studies, reflecting broader scholarly interests, move away from elite agency and text‐centred discourses to focus on Islamic Socialism as part of subaltern religio‐political movements and praxis (Caron & Dasgupta, 2016; Caron, 2016; Uddin, 2016, 2021, forthcoming; Raza, 2022; Ali & Raza, 2022). Uddin examines the politics of Maulana Bhashani, a popular peasant and worker leader in colonial South Asia, in particular his development of a subaltern and Third Worldist Islamic Socialism, which threatened state actors and the Jama'at‐i‐Islami in Pakistan in the late 1960s and early 1970s.…”

Section: Islamic Socialism In Colonial and Postcolonial Timesmentioning

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“…Pandey and Gooptu expand on this, noting that qasbahs were not only important in the development of elite Muslim politics but also a space from which a religiously empowered artisan community emerged, whose knowledge of Islam was shaped by their livelihoods (Gooptu, 2001; Pandey, 1990). James Caron and Ananya Dasgupta's articles shift attention from areas traditionally assumed to be the heartlands of Muslim South Asia to the “subaltern geographies” of the Indo‐Afghan borderlands and rural East Bengal; spaces that they argue enable radical cosmologies and “utopian liberation politics” (Caron & Dasgupta, 2016). In East Bengal, the intimate relationship between rural economies and popular forms of devotional life shaped more progressive Islamic interpretations of labour (Dasgupta, 2013; Uddin, 2016; Uddin, forthcoming).…”

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Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

Uddin

2023

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In the early 20th century, colonised people across empires rejected their status quo with visions and articulations of different emancipatory futures. The more radical and creative of these projects fused socialist thought with national, cultural or religious traditions. Grounded in ideas of equality, redistribution and common ownership, these visions offered futures of freedom beyond nationalism. Islamic Socialism was one of these revolutionary currents alongside Arab socialism, African socialism and Black Liberation Theology. The article reviews the historical scholarship on the relationship between Muslims and Left politics in 20th century South Asia and proposes Islamic Socialism as a new field of study. Some of the earliest articulations and enduring commitment to the politics of Islamic Socialism emerged from South Asia, yet the topic is not easily located in the existing scholarship on the region or elsewhere. Employing a diverse set of texts, I show how we can approach through three categories ‐ time, space, and ideas– and map out subaltern Islam as a future area of research. Existing studies have treated Islamic Socialism variously as crude readings of Islam and Marxism, an immemorial Islamic tradition, the intellectual product of theoretical congruence, or as a novel and creative experiment. Reflecting on its minor status in historiography, the article argues for the importance of Islamic Socialism in thinking beyond Islamic literalism and furthering our understanding of decolonisation experiments, everyday subaltern politics, and the possibilities for Marxism and Islam in the Global South.

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“…The recently merged Districts of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), have historically played a significant role in more immediate anti-colonial revolutionary and agrarian movements in the mainstream leftist movement across the undivided India (Jan, 2017). (Caron & Dasgupta, 2016), have described, pre-existing trends of resistance of the early anti-colonial revolutionaries in NWFP against the British empire at the closing of the nineteenth century already contained a strong radical egalitarian sentiment which drives for wholesale sociopolitical reforms. And they were linked to other areas like Bengal that also had a prevalence of Communist activities in later part of the history.…”

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The Evolution of Leftist Politics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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2022

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This paper seeks to explore the history of the evolution of leftist politics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which underwent a long process of transformation. Beginning with anti-colonial sentiments of opposing the British imperialism in undivided India, the revolutionary struggle fused with Pan-Islamism during the Khilafat movement and finally came into direct contact with Bolshevik ideology at the end of Hijra (travel) to Afghanistan and beyond. It is important to note that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and recently merged districts of former FATA had played an important role in the espionage and export of communist ideology into British India. It is also worth mentioning that Communist Party of India (CPI) viewed the right of self-determination as genuine right of the Muslim and supported the establishment of Pakistan by many ways. The leadership of CPI urged communists to support Muslim League (ML) candidates in 1946 General Elections which is considered the basis of Pakistan movement and many of them like Mian Iftikhar-ud-Din have joined ML It is therefore interesting to investigate the evolution and development of leftist politics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, so that to locate the social and political history of its gradual developments. Keywords: Pan-Islamism, revolutionary, anti-colonial, communist, nationalist, NWFP, progressive

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Popular culture, radical egalitarianism, and formations of Muslim selfhood in South Asia

Abstract: In early twentieth century leftist politics on the geographical fringes of South Asia, Islam

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Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

The Evolution of Leftist Politics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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