"Towards a New Medina: Jinnah, Deobandi Ulama, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial India" talk by Prof. Venkat Dhulipala at India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 26th July 2013

Time : 6:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Place : Conference Room - II, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Muller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : 'Towards a New Medina: Jinnah, Deobandi Ulama, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial India' talk by Prof. Venkat Dhulipala, Assistant Professor of History, University of Northe Carolina, Wilmington.
He is the author of Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2014.

The talk explains how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how  popular Muslim enthusiasm was generated for this idea, especially in the crucial United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) whose Muslim elites played a critical role in Pakistan’s creation

Chair : Dr. Dilip Simeon

As part of Frontiers of History Series. 

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