Mahmudabad, Ali Khan, <br/><br/>
Poetry of belonging :  Muslim imaginings of India 1850-1950 / 
Ali Khan Mahmudabad. 
 - 1 online resource (344 pages) :  illustrations (black and white). 
 - Oxford scholarship online .
 - Oxford scholarship online. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> This book examines facets of North Indian Muslim identity c. 1850-1950. It focuses specifically on the role of literature and poetry as the medium through which certain Muslim 'voices' articulated, negotiated, configured and expressed their understandings of what it meant to be Muslim and Indian, given the socio-political exigencies of the time. Specifically, a history of the public space of poetry will be presented and half of the book will chart a history of the mushairah (poetic symposium) over this period. In doing so it will analyse the multiple ways in which this space adapted to the changing economic, social, political and technological contexts of the time. The second half of the book will present a history of the ideas that were often articulated in the space of the mushairah and changing notions of the watan (homeland) amongst various Muslim individuals will be analysed. 
<br/><br/> Specialized. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190991678 (ebook) :  No price 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islamic poetry--History and criticism.<br/>Identity (Psychology) in literature.<br/>Muslims in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ827 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809.193528297