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Making A Muslim Reading Publics And Contesting Identities In Nineteenthcentury North India S Akbar Zaidi

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Making A Muslim Reading Publics And Contesting Identities In Nineteenthcentury North India S Akbar Zaidi instant download after payment.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 3.49 MB

Pages: 270

Author: S. Akbar Zaidi

ISBN: 9781108490535, 1108490530, 2020056727, 2020056728

Language: English

Year: 2021

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Making A Muslim Reading Publics And Contesting Identities In Nineteenthcentury North India S Akbar Zaidi by S. Akbar Zaidi 9781108490535, 1108490530, 2020056727, 2020056728 instant download after payment.

Preface
The Making of This Book
Unlike most academic books, I begin this Preface with something of my own
background. Even if I were to eliminate many of the frills and do away with some
interesting details, the story of how this book came into being cannot be told without
delving into my own biography.
Having taught political economy and institutional economics at Karachi University
for over a decade and having published numerous academic articles and books based
on my research, I became bored with such themes and wanted to study something
different, preferably in the social sciences. One day in Karachi during the second
tenure of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, probably sometime in 1999, I read an article
in one of the Karachi newspapers on how the prime minister of Pakistan had walked
into a government-owned bank, the National Bank of Pakistan and, not finding the
manager in the bank, fired him. I found this behaviour quite odd, without any sort
of accountability or investigation. I imagined this to be adarbariform of culture
and attitude which was, I thought, inherited from Mughal styles of authoritarian
governance where power rested in the body of the emperor. I believed Nawaz Sharif’s
behaviour was a continuation of such styles of arbitrary governance. Perceiving this
as a worthy topic for a dissertation in History, I wrote what I thought was a proposal
that would get me admission into a history PhD programme.
I sent this ‘proposal’ to a number of scholars who worked on South Asian history
in the United Kingdom (UK) and asked if I might meet with them to discuss it. I
was already in my mid-forties at this stage and was not sure how I would be received,
especially as I was looking forward to working in a new discipline and moving away
from economics and political economy, where I had worked for almost two decades.
I went to meet Professor Francis Robinson at the Royal Holloway College in London
with my ‘proposal’, and he suggested that I do an MA in history first and then see if
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