Syed Akbar Hyder and I have a new book out, with Primus Books!
Contributors include Barbara Metcalf, David Lelyveld, Francis Robinson, CM Naim, Sylvia Vatuk, and many others.
Description: The essays in this volume examine 'hidden histories' related to gender, religion, and reform in modern South Asia. Chapters from an array of eminent contributors examine Indo-Muslim cultures and political mobilization, literary aesthetics, and education, broadly defined. Dedicated to Gail Minault, a pioneering scholar of women's history, Islamic reformation, and Urdu literature, this volume raises new questions about the role of identity in politics and public life, about memory and historical archives, and about innovative approaches to envisioning egalitarianism. It showcases interdisciplinary methodologies. Timely and thought provoking, this book will interest all who wish to understand how our diverse and plural pasts have informed our cosmopolitan present as we struggle to arrive at a better future for all.
"This collection of outstanding essays covers a range of inter-related subjects concerning modern South Asia, from identity to gender reform, in the context of political transformation. An indispensable contribution for the new voices and fresh perspectives it introduces."
-- Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University
Hidden Histories powerfully defines and celebrates a field that has refused to be occluded by majoritarian currents. This book contains compelling essays by many of the major figures of the last generation of Urdu Studies and modern South Asian history, by pre-eminent figures of the contemporary moment, and by a number of accomplished next-generation scholars. In addressing the ways in which Urdu literary sensibility has been enmeshed in debates about social reform and politics, Hidden Histories enacts the confluence of Urdu Studies and South Asian history as a promise to unfolding futures, conjuring the notion of history itself, in the words of one contributor, as a "Valley of Enchantment.”
--Kamala Visweswaran, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California at San Diego
The book is now available from Primus. It should be in wider release in the coming weeks.
http://www.primusbooks.com/showbookdetail.asp?bookid=210
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