Poetry as Resistance: Islam and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Pakistan PDF
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Poetry as Resistance Poetry as Resistance Islam and Ethnicity in Postcolonial Pakistan Nukhbah Taj Langah LONDON NEW YORK NEW DELHI First published 2012 in India by Routledge 912–915 Tolstoy House, 15–17 Tolstoy Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4RN First issued in paperback 2015 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2012 Nukhbah Taj Langah Typeset by Star Compugraphics Private Limited 5-CSC, Near City Apartments Vasundhara Enclave Delhi 110 096 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 13: 978-1-138-66240-7 (pbk) ISBN 13: 978-0-415-50146-0 (hbk) Contents List of Maps and Figures vii List of Abbreviations ix Glossary xi Preface and Acknowledgements xvii Part I: Colonial and Post-colonial Treatment of Siraiki Language 1. A Journey from ‘Proto-Siraiki’ to ‘Siraiki’ 3 2. Mysticism, Movement and Resistance 31 3. Siraiki Terminology 61 Part II: Analysis of Poetry 4. Resisting Traditional Institutions: Creating Vakhrap 97 5. The Mystic Journey of Siraiki Sunjaan 137 6. Moonjh for Siraikistan 186 Conclusion 232 Bibliography 238 About the Author 265 Index 266 List of Maps and Figures Maps 2.1 Map of the Fifth Province of Siraikistan Proposed by Siraiki Activists. 48 2.2 ‘Map of the Country in which the Multani Language is Spoken’ proposed by British Linguist/Writer Edward O’Brien. 50 Figures 3.1 Front Page of Siraiki Newspaper Daily Jhoke, Multan, 21 April 2006, Showing Siraiki Mystic Khwaja Ghulam Farid’s (1845–1901) Shrine of Baba Farid, Map of Siraiki Vasaib, Indigenous Handicrafts and Landmarks. 64 5.1 Aslam Ansari, ‘Gautam Ka Aakhri Waaz’, 1972, published in his book titled Khuab-o-Agahi (1982). 144 5.2 Fort Derawar, Cholistan Desert. 167 6.1 Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya, Multan. 192 List of Abbreviations ANP Awami National Party BNP Balochistan National Party (Awami) BNP Balochistan National Party (Hye Group) BNP Balochistan National Party (Mengal Group) JUI-F Jamiat Tablba-e-Islam (Fazal ur Rehman Group) JUI-S Jamiat ul Islam (Sami ul Haq Group) JWP Jamhori Watan Party Balochistan LSW Lotus and the Sandwaves by Aslam Ansari MML-F Muslim League Functional (Pagara Group) MQM Muttehada Qaumi Movement NWFP North West Frontier Province PKMK Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party PML-A All Pakistan Muslim League PML-N Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Group) PML-Q Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam group) PPP Pakistan Peoples’ Party PSP Pakistan Siraiki Party SS Book titled Sut Serai by Javed Aslam ‘SS’ The poem titled ‘Sut Serai’: The Native of Siraikistan, translated by the author SSB Saraiki, Sindh, and Balochistan: SSB and National Question by Zaaman Jafery, UKNM Usaan Khairat Naeen Mungday by Safeer Lashari
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