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Spiritual and Material Development the Politics of Islamic Charitable Action in North India Spiritual and Material Development The politics of Islamic charitable action in North India Catherine Larouche Department of Anthropology McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada October 29, 2017 A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy © Catherine Larouche, 2017 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................................................... v RÉSUMÉ ................................................................................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................................................................................... vii NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION ............................................................................... x ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................................................. xi Chapter One. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 1 A disadvantaged minority ............................................................................................................................. 1 Muslim charitable organizations ............................................................................................................. 11 Improvement ................................................................................................................................................... 16 Charitable aid .............................................................................................................................................. 16 Islam and economic development ........................................................................................................ 19 Everyday practices of care and development ................................................................................... 26 Civil society, the state, and politics of welfare .................................................................................... 30 Sites and study ................................................................................................................................................ 39 Lucknow and Muzaffarnagar................................................................................................................. 40 Fieldwork research .................................................................................................................................... 43 Working with, on, and in NGOs ................................................................................................................ 47 Structure of the thesis .................................................................................................................................. 48 Chapter Two. Crossroads ............................................................................................................................ 52 Islamic charity and the regulation of charitable organizations in India .................................. 54 Continuities and changes ............................................................................................................................ 60 Duty, reward, and social change .............................................................................................................. 68 Working where others have failed .......................................................................................................... 78 Muslim NGOs: A new avenue for social change ................................................................................. 81 iii Chapter Three. Aspirations and actions: The challenges of doing good ............................ 85 Community Trust ........................................................................................................................................... 90 Everyday donation practices ..................................................................................................................... 97 Case 1: The genuine poor ......................................................................................................................... 98 Case 2: Good Muslims .............................................................................................................................. 101 Case 3: Terminal illness .......................................................................................................................... 104 Case 3: English-medium schools .......................................................................................................... 105 Case 4: Weddings ...................................................................................................................................... 108 Trust and the pressures of institutionalized Islamic charity ...................................................... 110 Making choices ............................................................................................................................................. 115 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................................... 120 Chapter Four. Moral underpinnings of development: Muslim women and pious empowerment ................................................................................................................................................. 123 Muslim women, development, and economic participation ....................................................... 130 Bazm-e-Khawateen ..................................................................................................................................... 133 Being a good Muslim woman: Zenana Park meeting 1 ............................................................... 140 The solution is within you! Zenana Park meeting 2 ..................................................................... 144 Pious Empowerment .................................................................................................................................. 148 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................................... 157 Chapter Five. Political expectations and performances of secularism ............................. 161 State, secularism, and welfare responsibilities ................................................................................ 165 Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind ................................................................................................................................... 168 State neglect ................................................................................................................................................... 172 A secular and nationalist past ................................................................................................................. 176 Performing secularism .............................................................................................................................. 184 Pragmatism and politics ........................................................................................................................... 190 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................................... 194 Chapter Six. Emergency relief and the Muzaffarnagar riots ................................................... 196 The production of communal riots ....................................................................................................... 200 iv An “institutionalized riot system” ....................................................................................................... 201 Caste, class and voting patterns .......................................................................................................... 207 Everyday Hindu-Muslim interactions ................................................................................................ 210 Humanitarian aid ......................................................................................................................................... 216 The ambiguity of victimhood ............................................................................................................... 220 Resettlement and the making of legitimate victims ..................................................................... 224 Between “riot victims” and “poor Muslims” .................................................................................... 230 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................................... 234 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................................... 237 REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................................................... 246 v ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the politics of Islamic charitable action
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