The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India
The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India
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世俗伊斯兰教的语言：乌尔都语民族主义和印度殖民地
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10.21313/hawaii/9780824836092.001.0001
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2013
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K. Datla
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K. Datla
在殖民地印度分裂和独立之前的动荡时期，海得拉巴的穆斯林知识分子试图世俗化和重新制定他们的语言，历史，宗教和文学传统，以建立一个新的国家公众。为了回应英国人引入南亚的世俗教育模式，印度学者发起了一场激烈的辩论，讨论伊斯兰教育的改革、该国口语教育的重要性、乌尔都语的形成及其过去，以及伊斯兰教和印度历史对他们现在的意义。《世俗伊斯兰的语言》试图从另一个角度来解释南亚印度教徒和穆斯林之间的政治分歧，这些冲突往往被描述为对宗教的原始和不变的依恋的产物。作者认为，印度在20世纪30年代的政治斗争，也就是对巴基斯坦的要求开始明确表达的十年，不应该被理解为不充分或不完整的世俗主义的产物，而应该被理解为相互竞争的世俗议程的冲突。她的作品探讨了奥斯马尼亚大学（Osmania University）的语言、教育和宗教谈判，奥斯马尼亚大学是印度第一所使用现代印度语言（乌尔都语）作为教学媒介的大学，并阐明了殖民地流离失所和民族归属的问题。基于对历史证据的密切关注，世俗伊斯兰的语言对目前在人文和社会科学中争论的一些最困难的问题有着广泛的影响：欧洲殖民主义的意义和遗产，民族主义项目制定的包容和排斥，少数民族在民族主义锻造中的地位，以及宗教与现代政治之间的关系。这将是感兴趣的历史学家的殖民地印度，学者的伊斯兰教，和任何人谁遵循乌尔都语的政治。
During the turbulent period prior to colonial India's partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model of secular education introduced to South Asia by the British, Indian academics launched a spirited debate about the reform of Islamic education, the importance of education in the spoken languages of the country, the shape of Urdu and its past, and the significance of the histories of Islam and India for their present. The Language of Secular Islam pursues an alternative account of the political disagreements between Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, conflicts too often described as the product of primordial and unchanging attachments to religion. The author suggests that the political struggles of India in the 1930s, the very decade in which the demand for Pakistan began to be articulated, should not be understood as the product of an inadequate or incomplete secularism, but as the clashing of competing secular agendas. Her work explores negotiations over language, education, and religion at Osmania University, the first university in India to use a modern Indian language (Urdu) as its medium of instruction, and sheds light on questions of colonial displacement and national belonging. Grounded in close attention to historical evidence, The Language of Secular Islam has broad ramifications for some of the most difficult issues currently debated in the humanities and social sciences: the significance and legacies of European colonialism, the inclusions and exclusions enacted by nationalist projects, the place of minorities in the forging of nationalism, and the relationship between religion and modern politics. It will be of interest to historians of colonial India, scholars of Islam, and anyone who follows the politics of Urdu.