{"product_id":"9781905422111","title":"Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow have the dominant histories of the Indian subcontinent been constructed and how do they deal with the subject of Muslims and Dalits or ‘Untouchables’? Taking a subaltern approach - the view from below - \u003ci\u003eMuslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History\u003c\/i\u003e explores a wide range of issues across history. The essays range across: the creation of the concept of ‘the Musalman’ through the work of Hindi writers and publicists in the late nineteenth century; how the re-imaginings of the Mappila peasant ‘uprisings’ in the early twentieth century constructed a popular image of the fanatic Musalman; Gandhi´s attempt to rethink political relations between Hindus and Muslims; the anomalous position of Kabir within the frameworks of caste and canonicity; the history, politics, and legal aspects of the case of the Dalit murdered on the steps of a Hanuman temple; how authority, property and matriliny in Malabar helped to shape colonial law-making; the rhetoric of the bardic tradition; the nationalist imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060853194992,"sku":"9781905422111","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781905422111_p0.jpg?v=1763614773","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781905422111","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}