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Mediating Muslim citizenship? AIMIM and its letters.
- Source :
- Contemporary South Asia; Mar2019, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p117-132, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Many scholars of the Indian State now argue that, given its limited resources and capacities to recognize and service its citizen-subjects, it relies on numerous mediators, including political parties, to administer, govern and rule its populace. The discourse of Indian citizenship meanwhile has moved towards the principle of ethnicity, making Muslim citizenship - as a legal status, a bundle of rights and entitlements, or a sense of identity and belonging (Jayal, 2013, Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2) - an increasingly fraught terrain. Located in this theoretical context, our paper examines the political mediation process put in place by the Hyderabad based Muslim political party, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). Drawing on fieldwork at its office, known as Darussalam, during 2010-2011, we argue that this organized mediation is a response to the marginalization of Muslims in the region, which has also evolved to respond to the needs of another marginalized population, Dalits. As such it should be read as a likely form that political representation of the marginalized and Muslims could take in post-colonial India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09584935
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary South Asia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134940230
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2019.1573213