Inside India
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Inside India
（Oxford India paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2009
- : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
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First published : London : Allan & Unwin, 1937
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-251) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 1937, this magisterial account of India in the 1930s contains the impressions and thoughts of Halide Edib, a Turkish writer who is not interested in imagining, inscribing or inventing India, but rather in documenting its multifaceted personality. Edib's idea of India is firmly anchored in the historical and sociological insights she gained during her stay in the subcontinent, and especially through her meetings with Mahatma Gandhi and other leading figures of the nationalist movement. In this book, she sums up aspects of Indian nationalism, pointing to its strengths and weaknesses, and highlights its encounters with British colonialism. She perceives the idea of pan Islamism with skepticism, and believes that religious identity cannot be defined in isolation since it is also determined by the confluence of cultural ideas and beliefs. In India, for instance, common ideals of citizenship and culture allow a distinct sense of nationhood to exist in separation from the religious lives of its people.
An overarching and scholarly Introduction by Mushirul Hasan - supported by two maps, a chronology of events, a genealogy of the Ottoman sultans, and brief biographical notes-allows for a wholesome reading of the text.
Table of Contents
- INSIDE INDIA
- Preface
- Introductory
- PART I INDIA SEEN THROUGH SALAM HOUSE
- 1. . Concerning Dr. Ansari's Household
- 2. Seeing the Old Monuments
- 3. Concerning Sarojini Naidu and other Indian Women
- 4. 'Raghuwar Tumko Meri Laj'
- 5. The Trio Around Mahatama Gandhi
- 6. Concerning Mahatama Gandhi's Activities
- 7. Concerning Chairmen at Jamia Lectures
- 8. Jamia, Men and Ideas
- 9. Concerning some 'Isms'
- PART II INDIA SEEN ON HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS
- 10. Aligarh
- 11. Lahore
- 12. Peshawar
- 13. Lucknow
- 14. Benares
- 15. Calcutta
- 16. Hyderabad
- 17. Bombay
- PART III INDIA IN THE ELTING-POT
- 18. Hinduism in the Melting-Pot
- 19. Mahatma Gandhi and India
- 20. Mahatma Gandhi at Home
- 21. The Eleven Vows of Mahatma Gandhi
- 22. Jawaharlal, The Socialist Leader
- 23. Islam in the Melting-Pot
- 24. Single Nationhood and Abdul-Gafar Khan
- 25. One Indian Nation or Two Indian Nations?
- 26. And the British?
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- INDEX
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