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Islam and National Identity: The Case of Pakistan and Bangla Desh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Nasir Islam
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Abstract

Indian Muslims have always been keenly aware of the differences between their own communal group and the Hindus on the one hand, and between themselves and the Christian foreigners on the other. This awareness of a separate Muslim identity was much stronger at the level of the elite, however, than at the level of the masses. At times, these feelings erupted into calls for jihad against the British, for example, the Wahabi and Fraizia movements. They also manifested themselves in the creation of religious schools, like Deoband, to preserve the Muslim way of life. Finally they emerged as the reformist Aligarh Movement to promote modern education, reinterpret the teachings of Islam, and secure the rights of Muslims as a minority community. In the early twentieth century, various attempts were made to forge a united front with the Hindus for an India independent of Great Britain. These attempts met with repeated failure.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1981 , pp. 55 - 72
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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