Presidential Address: Too Little and Too Much: Reflections on Muslims in the History of India  

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Metcalf, Barbara D

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Asian Studies vol. 54 no. 04 (Nov. 1995), page 951-967.
Topik: Nationalist Narratives; Colonial; Muslims

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BARBARA METCALF's presidential address draws attention to the "politics of knowledge" in present-day India, particularly as it applies to the growing interest in and use of historical narratives to shape and define contemporary identity and citizenship. She traces such accounts back to the colonial narrative that grew out of specific administrative practices as well as the nationalist narrative that arose to counter it. Both versions were based on the notion of the "essentialism of an India composed of two eternal groups"-Hindus and Muslims. A new body of scholarship is emerging, however, that offers alternative stories by refusing to make "too much" of stereotypical categories and by considering much more carefully the historical contingencies and complexities that generated differences but also similarities in the experiences of people living in the Indian subcontinent.

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