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Remaking History
1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad
By: Afsar Mohammad
320 Pages
- Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781009339636
- Published By: Cambridge University Press
- Published: January 2024
$110.00
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The story this book follows begins on August 15, 1947. As the new nation-states of India and Pakistan prepared to negotiate land and power, the citizens of the princely state of Hyderabad experienced the unravelling of an intense political conflict between the Union government of India and the local ruler, the Nizam of Hyderabad. The author explores how the state of Hyderabad was struggling to produce its own tools of cultural renaissance and modernity in the background of the Union Government of India's deployment of the central army, the Nizam's idea of an 'Muslim state' and the Telangana Armed struggle fostered by leftist parties. With evidence from the oral histories of various sections - both Muslims and non-Muslims - and a wide variety of written sources and historical documents, this book captures such an intense moment of new politics and cultural discourses.
Afsar Mohammad is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning South Asian scholar working on Hindu-Muslim interactions in India. He also focuses on Muslim writing and Telugu studies. Afsar teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His previous work The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India, published by the Oxford University Press, USA in 2013 has received high praise for its contributions to the studies on vernacular Islam.