Muslims against the Muslim League [Texte imprimé] : critiques of of the idea of Pakistan / edited by Ali Usman Qasmi, Megan Eaton Robb

"Discusses the dynamics of the Indian freedom movement during the 1940s from the perspective of those Muslim leaders and political parties who opposed the idea of a separate state for South Asian Muslims, or whose primary engagement with Muslim League activities treated separatism as marginal to their political agenda"--Provided by publisher

Notes bibliogr.

Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani and the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind: Against Pakistan, against the Muslim League / Barbara Metcalf -- The Partition Conundrum: Perspectives, Experiences, and Ambiguities from Qasbahs in India / Raisur Rahman -- Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his Political Imagination: Pak-Plan and the Continent of Dinia / Tahir Kamran -- Differentiating Between Pakistan and Napak-istan: Maulana Abul Ala Maududi's Critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah / Ali Usman Qasmi -- Advising the Army of Allah: Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Critique of the Muslim League / Megan Eaton Robb -- Mian Iftikharuddin's Tryst with Muslim League / Ali Raza -- Visionary of Another Politics: Inayatullah Khan 'al-Mashriqi' and Pakistan / Markus Daechsel -- Nonviolence, Pukhtunwali and Decolonization: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgar Politics of Friendship / Safoora Arbab -- Islam, Communism and the Search for a Fiction / Ammar Ali Jan -- Muslim Nationalist or Nationalist Muslim? Allah Bakhsh Soomro and Muslim Politics in 1930s and 1940s Sindh / Sarah Ansari -- Dancing with the Enemy: Sikander, Jinnah and the Vexed Question of 'Pakistan' in a Punjabi Unionist Context / Newal Osman -- Religion between Region and Nation: Rezaul Karim, Bengal, and Muslim Politics at the End of Empire / Neilesh Bose -- 'The Pakistan that is going to be Sunnistan': Indian Shi'i Responses to the Pakistan Movement / Justin Jones -- The Baluch Qaum of Qalat State: Challenging the Ideological and Territorial Boundaries of Pakistan / Abdul Majeed