Professor STEPHEN LEGG stephen.legg@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Historical Geography
A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi
Legg, Stephen
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Abstract
This paper explores the mohallas of Delhi, sub-communities within the city, and asks whether Delhi was pre-partitioning before August 1947. It suggests that the mohalla was a site of political mobilisation that was systematically used by Congress from the Civil Disobedience movement of 1930 onwards. During the early 1940s communal voluntary associations like the Muslim League’s National Guard and the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) attempted to establish representatives and training practices within mohallas. The paper concludes that the mohalla provides a space and a scale at which to view communal violence afresh, as one of the many ‘spaces before partition’ that were reshaping (in) the 1940s.
Citation
Legg, S. (2019). A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554472
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 27, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 5, 2019 |
Publication Date | Feb 5, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Sep 27, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 6, 2020 |
Journal | South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies |
Print ISSN | 0085-6401 |
Electronic ISSN | 1479-0270 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 42 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 170-187 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554472 |
Keywords | Communalism, Congress, Delhi, molhalla, Muslim League, Muslim National Guard, Partition, RSS |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1137950 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554472 |
Additional Information | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in South Asia: Jurnal of South Asian Studies on 05/02/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554472 |
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