''The Deoband School And The Demand For Pakistan'' a research book by Ziaul Hasan Farooqi, Professor of
Jamia Millia Islamia
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. The book was published in 1963 by Asia Publishing House,
New Delhi
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. It was originally an MA thesis by the author, completed in 1959 at
McGill University
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. The book corrects a misreading in
England
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about the recent Muslim history of India. The book gained popularity within a short period of its publication, which had a significant impact on the policy making of India at that time.
Content
The book has a total of 4 chapters. It begins with a discussion of Muslim history in India from 1800 to
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...
and the role of Muslim clerics in it. The establishment of
Darul Uloom Deoband
The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary (darul uloom) in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim ...
after Rebellion is the second topic.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was established in the sixth decade of the establishment of Darul Uloom Deoband, which is the third topic of discussion in the book. In the last chapter the author discusses the creation of
Pakistan movement and the role of
Jamiat in it. The author ignores the long history of Muslim nationalism before the rise of the
Muslim League and this was closely associated with nationalism of the
Congress
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. He showed how Darul Uloom Deoband, unlike the Muslim League, became a training ground for
Composite nationalism.
See also
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Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900''
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Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam''
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1963 non-fiction books
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History of Islam
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