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Beyond Hindu and Muslim : multiple identity in narratives from village India

Title
  1. Beyond Hindu and Muslim : multiple identity in narratives from village India / Peter Gottschalk.
Published by
  1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Author
  1. Gottschalk, Peter, 1963-

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Description
  1. xviii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Beyond Hindu & Muslim
Subject
  1. Muslim
  2. Group identity > India
  3. Ethnicity > India
  4. Muslims > India
  5. Hindus > India
  6. Narration (Rhetoric)
  7. Ethnic relations
  8. Ethnicity
  9. Group identity
  10. Hindus
  11. Muslims
  12. Hindu
  13. Interaktion
  14. Ländlicher Raum
  15. Hindoes
  16. Islamieten
  17. Etnisch bewustzijn
  18. Dorpen
  19. India > Ethnic relations
  20. India
  21. Indien > Nord
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203) and index.