Table of Contents

Lists of Maps, Preface, List of Abbreviations, 1. The Muslim Self and the Loss of Sovereignty: Individual and Community Before 1858, 2. Forging a Muslim Community: Press, Poetry and Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century, 3. Common Languages, Contested Scripts, Conflicted Communities: Shifting Identities of Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi, 4. Muslims as a Legal and Political Category: Subjecthood in Theory and Practice, 5. Identity and Sovereignty in Muslim Consciousness: The Khilafat Crescent and the Indian Charkha, 6. Contested Sovereignty in the Punjab: The Interplay of Formal and Informal Politics, 7. Between Region and Nation: The Missing Centre, 8. At the Crossroads of ‘Pakistan’: Muslim Imaginings and Territorial Sovereignty, 9. Lost Tracks to Unity: Confrontation, Compromise and Civil War, 10. Epilogue An Unhealing Wound: Paradoxes of Muslim Identity, Sovereignty and Citizenship, Glossary, Select Bibliography, Index

About the Author

Ayesha Jalal

Reviews

'Jalal has produced an outstanding book, which brings a new level of understanding to the recent history of that third of the world's Muslims who live in South Asia.' - Francis Robinson, Asian Affairs February 2002