Venkat Dhulipala is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He has an M.A in Political Science from University of Hyderabad, an M.A in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D in History from the University of Minnesota. He was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas Austin 2010-2011 during which he completed his book manuscript, 'Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India', forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2014. His published essays include Rallying the Qaum: The Muslim League in the United Provinces 1937-1939 (Modern Asian Studies- May 2010) and A Nation-State Insufficiently Imagined? Debating Pakistan in Late Colonial North India, (IESHR July/Sept 2011). (Click here for a link)
Professor Dhulipala will deliver four lectures in Delhi between July 25 and August 8. Here are details of the first two. More information will be posted soon.
The Forgotten Pioneer of Partition Studies: B.R. Ambedkar and the idea of Pakistan
Thursday 25th July at 3 pm
Venue: Committee Room, School of Social Sciences - II
Centre for Political Studies; School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Towards a New Medina: Jinnah, Deobandi Ulama, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
Venue - India International Centre; Conference Room - II (2nd floor above the Dining room, IIC main building).
Friday, 26th July at 6.30 pm
The talk is part of the series "Frontiers of History"
Arab Pilot and the English Sea Captain: The Deobandi Ulama, Jinnah, and the Struggle for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
JNU (CHS)- 7 August, 3 pm
Arab Pilot and the English Sea Captain: The Deobandi Ulama, Jinnah, and the Struggle for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
Jamia Millia Islamia- 8 August 12:15 pm
The talks address how the idea of Pakistan was articulated & debated in the public sphere and how popular Muslim enthusiasm was generated for its creation, especially in the crucial United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) whose Muslim elites played a critical role in Pakistan’s creation. The speaker argues that Pakistan attracted overwhelming support in the UP not because it was a vague emotional slogan but because it was articulated as an Islamic State- a New Medina as some would call it-- a utopia that would be a refuge for and protector of Indian Muslims, as well as the harbinger of Islam’s renewal and rise in the twentieth century. This new State was expected to emerge as the new leader of the Islamic world protecting both Indian and global community of Muslims (ummah), and thus be a worthy successor to the defunct Turkish Caliphate. The speaker has studied the critical role played by clerics (ulama) from the influential Deoband School in building this imagined national community, acutely aware of Pakistan’s global historical significance. He demonstrates how these ulama collaborated with the Anglicized leadership of the Muslim League & forged a new political vocabulary fusing ideas of Islamic nationhood & modern state to fashion decisively popular arguments for creating Pakistan.
Here are links to two of his published essays:
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