Afsar Mohammad delivered a lecture on ‘Rewriting Muslim Histories: 1948 Police Action and the Case of Hyderabad’. It was chaired by Priyadarshini Vijaisri.
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This lecture is about the making of an alternative history of 1948 police action in Hyderabad. Despite unprecedented violence and trauma, the history of police action in Hyderabad was totally ignored by mainstream histories. It will explore how the state of Hyderabad was struggling to produce its own tools of cultural renaissance and modernity. By juxtaposing oral testimonies and written narratives that includes fictional and non-fictional works, the speaker will focus on the importance of rewriting the Muslim past and capturing the intense moment of new politics and cultural discourses.
Afsar Mohammad teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is a South Asian scholar working on Hindu-Muslim interactions in India with focus on Muslim writing and Telugu studies. He is the author of Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad.
Priyadarshini Vijaisri is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
Wednesday, 17 January 2024, 4 pm, Seminar Room and Zoom https://bit.ly/3vpsNqf
