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Making a Muslim : reading publics and contesting identities in nineteenth-century North India / S. Akbar Zaidi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021Description: 249 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108490535
Other title:
  • Reading publics and contesting identities in nineteenth-century North India
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Making a MuslimDDC classification:
  • 323.3/8297095409034 23
LOC classification:
  • DS432.M84 Z35 2021
Contents:
Who is a Muslim? Identities of Exclusion -- Zillat, apne hāthon se -- Main majbūr hu'ā: Print Matters -- Performativity, and Orality in Print.
Summary: "How do ideas shape government decision-making? Comparativist scholarship has conventionally given unbridled primacy to external, material interests - such as votes and rents - as proximately shaping political behavior. Although these logics tend to explicate elite decisionmaking around elections and the predictability of pork barrel politics, they fall short in explaining political conduct during a credibility crisis, such as when governments are faced with a nationwide anti-corruption movement. In such instances of high political uncertainty, the author argues in this book, elite ideas drive government decision-making. We have observed such arguments being made in the realm of international relations, American politics, and the political economy of development in western Europe; but an account of ideas fueling or sometimes even constraining government action in developing world contexts, where material pressures are high, is found wanting. The purpose of this book is to move beyond the banal claim that ideas matter, and trace where ideas come from, how they are chosen, and when they are most salient for explaining political behavior in developing democracies. The study focuses on India, with similar settings, including Brazil, Turkey, and Indonesia"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who is a Muslim? Identities of Exclusion -- Zillat, apne hāthon se -- Main majbūr hu'ā: Print Matters -- Performativity, and Orality in Print.

"How do ideas shape government decision-making? Comparativist scholarship has conventionally given unbridled primacy to external, material interests - such as votes and rents - as proximately shaping political behavior. Although these logics tend to explicate elite decisionmaking around elections and the predictability of pork barrel politics, they fall short in explaining political conduct during a credibility crisis, such as when governments are faced with a nationwide anti-corruption movement. In such instances of high political uncertainty, the author argues in this book, elite ideas drive government decision-making. We have observed such arguments being made in the realm of international relations, American politics, and the political economy of development in western Europe; but an account of ideas fueling or sometimes even constraining government action in developing world contexts, where material pressures are high, is found wanting. The purpose of this book is to move beyond the banal claim that ideas matter, and trace where ideas come from, how they are chosen, and when they are most salient for explaining political behavior in developing democracies. The study focuses on India, with similar settings, including Brazil, Turkey, and Indonesia"-- Provided by publisher.

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