Research Catalog

Title

Beyond Hindu and Muslim : multiple identity in narratives from village India / Peter Gottschalk.

Author

Gottschalk, Peter, 1963-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xviii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"Hindu India. Muslim India. India has long been depicted as a nation divided into two inherently antagonistic and mutually exclusive communities that live in uneasy, sometimes violent, tension. Beyond Hindu and Muslim challenges these assumptions with an examination of the multiple identities held by the residents of a group of villages in north India. Instead of focusing on one religious community to the exclusion of the other or concentrating only on the conflict between the two, Peter Gottschalk examines the complex interactions that tie individuals not just to one group but to many. Residents identify with groups whose membership cuts across religious boundaries, including associations based on family, neighborhood, village, and nation, as well as gender, class, caste, and language. In this way, these residents should not be described as simply Hindus and Muslims because they are also neighbors, classmates, teammates, rivals, friends, and fellow devotees."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Beyond Hindu & Muslim

Subject

• Muslim
• Group identity > India
• Ethnicity > India
• Muslims > India
• Hindus > India
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Ethnic relations
• Ethnicity
• Group identity
• Hindus
• Muslims
• Hindu
• Interaktion
• Ländlicher Raum
• Hindoes
• Islamieten
• Etnisch bewustzijn
• Dorpen
• India > Ethnic relations
• India
• Indien > Nord

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Wendy Doniger -- Introduction: One Territory, Multiple Maps -- 1. Multiple Identities, Singular Representations -- 2. The Village Nexus -- 3. Identity, Narrative, and Group Memory -- 4. Ocean of the Strands of Memory -- 5. Institutions of Integration and Disintegration -- Conclusion: The Well of Meanings -- App. Indices of Bihar Government Textbooks for Social Studies and History.

ISBN

• 0195135148
• 9780195135145
• 0195189159
• 9780195189155

LCCN

99046737

OCLC

• ocm42429324
• 42429324
• SCSB-14439251

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library