Self and sovereignty: individual and community in South Asian Islam since 1850

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Lists of Maps; Preface; List of Abbreviations; The Muslim Self and the Loss of Sovereignty: Individual and Community Before 1858; Forging a Muslim Community: Press, Poetry and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century; Common Languages, Contested Scripts, Conflicted Communities: Shifting Identities of Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi; Muslims as a Legal and Political Category: Subjecthood in Theory and Practice; Identity and Sovereignty in Muslim Consciousness: The Khilafat Crescent and the Indian Charkha

Contested Sovereignty in the Punjab: The Interplay of Formal and Informal PoliticsBetween Region and Nation: The Missing Centre; At the Crossroads of 'Pakistan': Muslim Imaginings and Territorial Sovereignty; Lost Tracks to Unity: Confrontation, Compromise and Civil War; Epilogue An Unhealing Wound: Paradoxes of Muslim Identity, Sovereignty and Citizenship; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index