Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08026-3 - Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh Maidul Islam Index More information Index 335 Index Access-Controlled High-Speed Corridor ‘available’/‘availability,’ concept of, 10 Project, 129 Awami League, 175–179, 184, 187–188, Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin, 19–20 195, 199, 204, 212, 219, 226, 230–232 Agwani, M. S., 64 Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam, 105 Ahl-i-Hadith movement, 180 Azam, Ghulam, 176, 194, 208, 218, 221 , Ahmed, Akbar, 49 232, 247-248 Ahmed, Justice Shahabuddin, 218 Ahmed, Raisuddin, 146 Alhle-e-Hadees, 113 Baathist regime of Iraq, 18 Ali, Maulana Karamat, 181 Babri Masjid Action Committee, 108 Ali, Maulana Wilayet, 180 Babri mosque demolition, 106 Ali, Mawlana Inayat, 180 Bandung Conference, 31 Ali, Syed Ameer, 181 Bangladesh Ali, T. Arif, 135, 137, 144 altered status quo, politics of, 189 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimin anti-Ershad movement, 176–177 (AIMIM), 108 anti-Indian sentiments in, 233–234 All India United Democratic Front Constitution of, 176 (AIUDF), 108 disinvestment of profit-making Al-Qaeda, 6–7, 51 ‘state-owned enterprises,’ 201 al-Rāwandī, Ibn, 17 failure of Left movement in, 178–179 al-Rāzī (Rhazes), Abu Bakr, 17 inclusion and exclusion, politics of, Al-Sadr, Moqtada, 30 188 American imperialism, 31, 120 Islam as a political symbol in, protests against, 106–107, 124–125 175–178 vs Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH), 111 Islamic symbols in Bangladeshi Amin, Samir, 11–13, 29, 46, 55, 187–188 politics, 179 Ansari, M. A., 105 Islamist parties in, 204 Anti-Cola Agitation Committee, 129 Islamist populism in, 230–234 anti-inflationary fiscal responsibility, 22 Jamaat’s intervention, 190–199 anti-Orientalist view of Islam, 48–50 Kemalist project of Mujibism, 184– anti-Shah movement, 31 187 Arab-Islamic specificity, 11–12 Mujibism, 15, 18, 170–175 Aristotle, 86 Muslim peasantry, 181–182 articulation, 10–11 political culture of secularism, Asad, Abul, 204 194–196 Asad, Talal, 20, 42, 72 political economy factors and rise of Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal, 15, 29 Islamism, 179–180 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08026-3 - Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh Maidul Islam Index More information 336 Index politico-ideological discourses in, response to Sheikh Mujib’s economic 187–190 policies, 202 prominence of Islamism in, 180–184 social welfare network of, 209 prominence of Jamaati Islamism in, student wing, 202 172 Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami Rakhi Bahini, 173 League (BAKSHAL), 173 secular fabric of, 176 Bangladesh Liberation Movement, 1971, social transformation, politics of, 189 19, 198 Bangladeshi nationalism, 186 Bangladesh Muslim League, 213 Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, 199. see also Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), 171, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH); Jamaat- 179, 187–188, 198–199, 204, 211, e-Islami in India and Bangladesh 218, 220–226, 230, 302 antagonism of, 196 Bangladesh parliamentary elections anti-‘Western’ cultural globalization, 1979 election, 214–215 210–212 1986 election, 215–216 Bangladesh parliamentary elections, 1991 election, 217–218 performance of, 213–215, 217–221, 1996 election, 219–220 226–227 2001 election, 221–222 ban on Taslima’s writings, 210–212 2008 election, 222, 231, 301–302 capital friendly trade-unionism of, 2014 election, 222–226 208 1973 elections, 213 constructing antagonistic frontiers 1978 presidential election, 215 and politics of ‘Islamic alternative,’ voter turnout, 218–219, 223, 225 190–198 Bangladesh Sramik Kalyan Federation election manifesto of, 207 (BSKF), 207 Ershad’s New Industrial Policy and, Barelvi movement, 36 203 Barkat, Abul, 206 foreign policy, 209 Bengali language movement after funding, 205–206 partition, 171 issues of ‘free sex,’ ‘nudity,’ ‘obscenity’ Bengali nationalism, 186 and ‘sexual permissiveness,’ 210 Bhabha, Homi, 18, 26 labour law reforms, 207–208 Bhashani, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan, leadership, 83 181 leadership and intellectuals, 205 Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali, 30, 194 in mainstream politics, 228 Bilgrami, Akeel, 107 neoliberalist approach, 200–210 Blair, Tony, 23 notion of secularism, 82 blasphemy and ‘insult to Prophet,’ political agenda of, 203–205 Islamism against, 150, 253–259 politico-ideological articulations of, Buck-Morss, Susan, 50 212–229 bureaucratic socialism, 53 336 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08026-3 - Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh Maidul Islam Index More information Index 337 capitalistic developmental project, 134 Ershad, General Hussain Muhammad, Central Educational Institutions 171, 174–178, 187, 200, 203, 215- (Reservation in Admission) Act, 218, 226, 228 2006, 98 Esposito, John L., 41, 43, 47 Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), 137 Euro-American neoliberalism, 26–27 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 90, 166 Euro-American world, 13 Chatterjee, Partha, 99 Eurocentric Orientalism, 56 Choueiri, Youssef M., 36–37, 72 Eurocentrism, 11–12, 187 Chowdhury, Abu Syeed, 213 European Renaissance, 16 Clinton, Bill, 23 European superiority, 11 Coastal Management Zone Act (CMZ extremist Islamists, 6–7 Act), 129–130 Coastal Regulation Zone Act (CRZ Act), 130 faith in Islamic religion, 6 Coca Cola plant of Plachimada, issues Faraizi movement, 36, 180 with, 127–129, 286–287 Farooq, Mujtaba, 66, 135–136, 157 colonial and post-colonial regimes, Islamist Faruq, Omar, 303–304 response, 35–46 folk Islam, 34 Communist Party of India (Marxist), 105, Fordist–Keynesian accumulation regime, 21 129, 135 Foucault, Michel, 50 comparative fundamentalisms, 43, 45 free markets, 20–21 Comte, Auguste, 90 free trade, 20 cultural erosion, Islamic, 34–35 Freeden, Michael, 7–8, 21, 25, 243 cultural identities, Islamic, 35–36 Freud, Sigmund, 90 cultural relativists, 43 Friedman, Milton, 21, 24 fundamentalism, 54 as an analytical category, 4 Dahl, Robert, 86 comparative, 43, 45 Danish cartoon controversy, 253–255, 257 features of, 4 democracy, Islamic, 44 modernity and, 4 Devji, Faisal, 112–113, 254–256 in a Muslim context, coinage and discourse of an order, 10 usage of, 2–5 Durkheim, Émile, 90 Galloway, George, 133 Endosulfan rehabilitation programme, German ordo-liberalism, 25 131–132 Girl’s Islamic Organisation (GIO), 153 Enlightenment, 16 Gorkha agitation, 146 equality, 7, 57, 111, 115, 273 Great Depression of 1930s, 21 rhetoric of, 110 Gupta, J. B. Das, 64 337 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08026-3 - Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh Maidul Islam Index More information 338 Index Halliday, Fred, 46, 56 idealization of, 9 Hamas, 6, 30-31, 55, 126 interpretation of, 10 Haq, A. K. Fazlul, 181 Islamist definition, 6 Haq, Maulana Muzammilull, 113 as a way of life, 6 Haque, A. T. M. Fazlul, 197–198, 205, worldview, 9 301, 303 Islamic Democratic League (IDL), 213 Harman, Chris, 46 Islamic essentialism, 41 Harrisons Malayalam Limited, issue of Islamic exceptionalism, 43–44 land acquisition, 137–138 Islamic faith, 44 Hasan, Choudhury Mahmood, 198, 301, 303 Islamic feminism, 75–81 Hashim, Abul, 181 Islamic fundamentalism, 2–3, 5, 11, 29, Hasina, Sheikh, 220 43–45, 52-55, 77 Hayek, Friedrich August von, 21, 24 essentialist vs anti-essentialist hegemony, 14 representation of, 4 in contemporary India and Islami Chattro Shibir (ICS), 202 Bangladesh, 14–15 Islamic identity, 5–7, 192, 257 in Gramscian sense, 14 Islamic metaphoric language, 5 structure of hegemonic power, 14 Islamic movements, 2, 20 Hezbollah, 6–7, 30, 55, 114, 142 categories, 40–46 Hindutva, 54, 82, 92–93, 108, 141–142, class analysis, 45–46 146–147, 152, 160, 165, 235–237, 265 comparative fundamentalisms, 45 homogenous Islamism, 43 conservatives and moderates, 42 Huntington, Samuel, 44 contradictory class interests and, 33 Hussain, T. K., 137 sociological and political economy approaches, 41 in South Asia, 304 Ibnae Qadeem Deoband, 113 Islamic organizations, 6 ‘ideologization’ of Islamic religion, 8–9 in terms of operational strategies, 6–7 Ikamat-e-Deen, 144 Islamic radicalism, 46 Illiyas, S. Q. R., 124, 135, 144–145, Islamic reformism, 36–37, 181 147–150, 152, 156, 291, 296 Islamic revivalism, 3, 36–37, 180 imperialism, 31–32, 54–58, 139 Islamic revolt of Iran in 1979, 179 capitalistic mode of, 134 ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’ (ISIS), 30 imperialist globalization, 55 Islamic subjectivity, 5 Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), 108 Islamic symbolism, 37 Indo-US nuclear deal, criticism of, 125– Islamic threat, mythical notion of, 47 126, 133–134 Islamic welfare state, 230 Islam Islamism culturalist interpretations of, 42 academic debates on, 56–58 as a ‘discursive tradition,’ 42 academic works on, 5 338 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08026-3 - Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh Maidul Islam Index More information Index 339 acts of decontestation, 7–8 Islamist opposition to globalization, 55–56, anti-modernism of, 36 113 class bases of, 46 ban on Nasrin and Rushdie’s books, commonalities between 67, 150–151, 252, 255, 257–258, 292 postmodernism and, 52–53 against ‘blasphemy’ and ‘insult to contestation between neoliberalism Prophet,’ 150, 253–254, 257 and, 11 against ‘consumerism’ and contradiction between Islamic ‘materialist culture,’ 148–153 universalism/Islamist populism, 1 criticism to contemporary capitalism,