TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahmudabad,Ali Khan
TI  - Poetry of belonging: Muslim imaginings of India 1850-1950 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190991678 (ebook) :
AV  - PJ827 
U1  - 809.193528297 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Islamic poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Muslims in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190121013.001.0001
ER  -