From Student Organizations to Ethnic Parties: Sindhi nationalism during One Unit

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The social space of Muslim spokespersons in India: a typology

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

Ethno-nationalisme et musées ethnographiques en contexte postcolonial: représenter la culture du Sindh au Pakistan

Cet article entend questionner la pertinence du musée ethnographique en tant que forme muséale, non pas dans son contexte européen, mais en contexte postcolonial – une dimension étrangement absente des réflexions sur la décolonisation des musées ethnographiques – à partir du cas de la province du Sindh au Pakistan. Il s’agit ici de comprendre comment les musées ethnographiques participent d’un processus de folklorisation de la culture du Sindh, via notamment les recherches folkloristes menées au sein des institutions culturelles provinciales et dans le cadre d’une politique visant à établir une nouvelle discipline, la « sindhologie », ou l’étude du Sindh. Dans les musées ethnographiques, les représentations folklorisées à travers les dioramas reproduisent la vision essentialiste de l’ethnographie coloniale sans se départir des hiérarchies de valeurs entre culture nationale et « sous-cultures », que celles-ci soient régionales ou propres à certains groupes sociaux. Ainsi, si le musée ethnographique postcolonial permet dans le cas du Sindh de résister à la domination de l’État du Pakistan, il reproduit aussi les rapports de pouvoir existan

L'idée de Pakistan

https://laviedesidees.fr/L-idee-de-Pakistan.htmlLe Pakistan s’est rêvé, avant de naître, en nouvelle Médine. C’est du moins la thèse de l’historien Venkat Dhulipala, mais le projet d’ériger un État musulman puissant, qui assurerait le rayonnement de l’islam à travers le monde, était-il aussi populaire et abouti qu’il le dit

Discovering Sindh’s Past: Selections from the Journal of the Sindh Historical Society, 1934-1948. Introduction

International audienceThis introduction locates conceptually and historically the selection of articles from the Journal of the Sindh Historical Society reproduced in the book. We first counter the common notion that describes Sindhi identity as “syncretic” and highlight how religious identities acquired greater political salience in Sindh in the decades leading up to Partition in 1947. This context of heightened religious polarization was the one in which the members of the Sind Historical Society wrote the articles reproduced here. Collectively, these articles not only deepen knowledge about Sindh but also the history of Pakistan and the diversity of its people. Hence, they point toward how the histories of region and nation should be “intertwined” rather than exclusive

Le nationalisme sans nation du Pakistan: entretien avec Julien Levesque

Alors que le Pakistan célèbre ses 75 ans, le pays connaît toujours une forte instabilité politique, avec l’éviction en avril du premier ministre Imran Khan. Le nouveau gouvernement est contraint d’avoir recours au FMI pour la 24e fois. Retour sur l’histoire politique du pays

Modi II : succès électoral et premières mesures phares

La revue du Comité Inde des Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France (CCEF

Modi II : succès électoral et premières mesures phares

La revue du Comité Inde des Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France (CCEF

Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups

In the early decades of the twentieth century in colonial India, the development of education, the expansion of electoral politics, and the decennial censuses led many caste communities, or ‘caste groups’, to organize collectively in search of internal solidarity and public assertion. Informed by the notions of service and reform, Muslims participated in this new associationism. Among them, the Sayyids – a privileged status group that claims descent from Prophet Muhammad – also formed their organizations. This article compares three Sayyid organizations in India and Pakistan, with two principal aims. First, it brings out the implicit notions of inclusion and exclusion that inform the functioning of the organizations as they seek community preservation. Second, it draws broader conclusions about associational forms available to South Asian Muslims when they act collectively on the basis of a shared social status or caste. The article concludes by delineating three ‘organizational models’ that Muslim caste groups can draw upon – the anjuman, the jami‘at, and the association. Overall, this article illustrates how Muslims frame practices of social distinction in an Islamic language of equality, piety, or service

From Student Organizations to Ethnic Parties: Sindhi nationalism during One Unit

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