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Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India W&M ScholarWorks Arts & Sciences Articles Arts and Sciences 2014 The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India Chitralekha Zutshi College of William and Mary Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/aspubs Recommended Citation Zutshi, C. (2014). Kavita Saraswathi Datla. The Language of Secular Islam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arts & Sciences Articles by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Asia 163 In addition to presenting an analytics of enclave, versations regarding India’s secular national culture Bhattacharya’s work also extends our understanding of and the position of Indian Muslims within it. Datla puts the plantation within colonial and tropical medicine. forward a noteworthy definition of secularism for this Over the course of the early twentieth century, the plan- moment in colonial India, arguing that it was not so tation enclave emerged worldwide as one of the sites for much “an approach to politics or a solution to com- the circulation and diffusion of scientific and medical munal problems and rather more a set of projects” (p. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/119/1/163/20306 by College of William and Mary user on 18 December 2018 knowledge. As we have learned from the now signifi- 9), all of which attempted to rethink traditional ideas, cant literature on tropical medicine (largely produced language, and culture to relocate them within a national in relation to its careers in colonial Africa), tropical vision of India in the future. Urdu nationalism, this medicine was virtually synonymous with colonial med- book skillfully demonstrates, was a secular and na- icine. Received wisdom is that the rare medical inter- tional, not a communal, enterprise. ventions to which plantation workers were subject were Scholarship on language and nationalism in colonial justified on the basis that a labor force had to maintain India has usually focused on the Hindi-Urdu debates a basic level of health for the plantation to turn a profit. and the script controversies that accompanied them in Yet Bhattacharya shows that plantations did not man- late nineteenth-century northern India. Not only does ifest a functionalist economy of health expenditure un- this book shift the center of language politics to south- der colonialism. Despite the fact that owners and man- ern India in a later period, but it also shows that in Hy- agers were presented with research that suggested that derabad, the restoration of Urdu as the medium of in- public health investment and infrastructure created and struction at Osmania University was not aimed at maintained a more productive (and indeed more prof- asserting its identity as a Muslim language but rather itable) workforce, Darjeeling’s individual plantations was intended to challenge the position of English as the failed to embrace such measures. Although tropical language of higher education in India. By updating medicine benefited from research in Darjeeling’s plan- Urdu and rendering it into a modern vernacular, Mus- tations and among its laborers, the reverse was not true. lim intellectuals hoped to make the language more ac- Nor did plantations come under political pressure by cessible and representative than English, thus also as- the colonial state to adopt such measures. While the serting its claim as the national language of a united plantation was an economic necessity for the colonial India. They refused to be “minoritized, to be considered state, the plantation functioned politically as what anything less than truly national and secular” (p. 15). Bhattacharya calls a ceded territory with a nearly un- The book meticulously details the ways in which this ending supply of cheap labor. was accomplished as the idea of establishing a vernac- In this impressive book, Bhattacharya demonstrates ular university was discussed in the context of educa- that, despite the recent fad for celebratory tales of great tional reform; as the newly founded Osmania Univer- gushing flows that forge triumphant global connections, sity’s medium of instruction, Urdu, and its relationship it is still possible to publish rigorous analyses of the in- to other vernaculars was debated; and as the issue of terruptions over which colonialism and capitalism rode writing the Muslim past into the history of India in uni- roughshod. She lays open the brutal ties that bound the versity textbooks became part of a larger conversation health of laboring bodies to wider strategic aims of the emphasizing those aspects of Indian Muslim history Indian economy and polity. In the final analysis, Bhat- that could serve a national purpose. In addition, the tacharya’s book suggests that capitalism’s growth story book records the efforts of Urdu scholars outside the in India—that is, the seemingly endless supply of cheap university to bring recognition to Urdu as a secular lan- and “replaceable” labor—remains much the same to- guage that was nonetheless connected to a Muslim past day as it was a century ago. and culture. These efforts foundered at the national SARAH HODGES level, where Hindi was increasingly presented as the na- University of Warwick tional language of an independent India. Datla illus- trates the effects of these national linguistic debates in KAVITA SARASWATHI DATLA. The Language of Secular Is- Hyderabad through a discussion of student protests at lam: Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India. Honolulu: Osmania University in the late 1930s and the disputes University of Hawai‘i Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 234. $49.00. among advocates of Urdu, Hindi, and of regional ver- naculars such as Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi. This book is a refreshing contribution to the scholarship Overall, Datla argues persuasively that linguistic ar- on Muslim politics, nationalism, and language in late guments were not simply about the position of Urdu but colonial India. Through her discussion of language de- about the definition of the secular. The Muslim intel- bates in the princely state of Hyderabad in the 1920s lectuals engaged in them presented alternative visions and 1930s, which focused on the revival of Urdu as a of the Indian state that were non-majoritarian and rec- national language, Kavita Saraswathi Datla reveals the ognized Muslim culture as part of the national narra- nuances of the negotiations for Muslim cultural and lit- tive. The book sheds new light on the two-nation theory erary recognition in the decades before independence. that led to the division of British India into India and Urdu emerges in this work not simply as a vehicle for Pakistan: as an attempt by Muslim politicians to acquire the expression of a politics of identity and difference, equal, not minority, status for Muslims in an indepen- but more importantly as a means of shaping the con- dent India. While Datla provides several examples of AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW FEBRUARY 2014 164 Reviews of Books the encounters between the Hyderabadi movement and immensely from the richness and rawness of the Manto the Indian National Congress, especially through the oeuvre. Manto himself is a riveting character: unruly figures of Abdul Haq and Mohandas Karamchand Gan- and restive, anti-authoritarian, egotistical, bohemian, a dhi, she does not discuss how Hyderabadi intellectuals frequenter of bars and dives, and a drunkard, but also engaged with the all-India movement for Pakistan and capable of savage self-mockery. Ironically, his story its advocates, such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah. How did reads a lot like fiction, and it comes as no surprise to Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/119/1/163/20306 by College of William and Mary user on 18 December 2018 regional linguistic movements for Urdu and Muslim learn that his published stories were generally inspired cultural recognition such as the one in Hyderabad fit by real events, either from his own life or from the lives into the overall schema of the politics of the All India of people he met through work or in refugee camps in Muslim League in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s? Such Pakistan. For instance, his famous short story “Toba information would have further enriched this well- Tek Singh,” which pillories the capriciousness of the crafted book. Partition by viewing it through the eyes of a group of CHITRALEKHA ZUTSHI “lunatics,” was written shortly after Manto emerged College of William and Mary from an enforced period of detoxification in the Lahore Mental Asylum. AYESHA JALAL. The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times, Jalal chose Manto as a subject in part to rescue him and Work across the Indo-Pakistan Divide. (Lawrence from neglect. While his writings are critically admired, Stone Lectures.) Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University in Pakistan he is officially categorized as a deviant and Press. 2013. Pp. xv, 265. Cloth $27.95, e-book $27.95. pornographer, and fifty years after his death none of his stories have yet made it into the state-approved school Ayesha Jalal is an accomplished scholar of modern curriculum. At the same time, recounting the narrative South Asia who has attracted her fair share of contro- of Manto’s growing despair and disillusionment with his versy. Her first monograph, Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the own impoverished situation, with the sundering of cen- Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan (1985), turies-old social ties between Hindus and Muslims in which suggested that Muhammad Ali Jinnah used the the subcontinent, and with the reactionary tendencies concept of Pakistan as a “bargaining chip” with the In- emerging in Pakistani Islam allows Jalal to renew her dian National Congress, was greeted locally with out- critiques of the politics that led to partition and of the rage and denounced for misrepresenting and traducing Pakistan state it created.
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