The Muslims had been entering into India firstly through the coastal areas as traders and voyagers in the early history of Islam and later from the North-Western areas of India as invaders, marauders and conwuerors. However, from the 12th Century AD, a sizable Muslim community started emerge primarily as a result of local conversion. This Muslim community, varied in size in various areas of India, lived quite peacefully through a long period covering many Muslim ruling dynasties. When the British colonial state replaced the last Muslim dynasty of Mughals, as result of the famous War of Independence or Great Muty in 1857-58, the Muslim community started developing a community consciousness on the basis of their religious identity. This conciousness developed into Muslim nationalism when in the dying days of the Raj, the two major religious rcommunities of India, Hindus and Muslims, could not develop concensus on the frame work regarding future constitution of India and the warring parties had to contend with partition of India and creation of two separate modern nation states of India and Pakistan. This course is aimed at developing an in-depth understanding in students regarding the origin and growth of phenomenon of religious nationalism among Indian Muslims in peculiar circumstances of later half of nineteenth and first half of twentieth century.
Course Material
- Total Lessons 31
- Department History & Pakistan Studies
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Mr. Muhammad Abrar Zahoor
