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  title info:
    title: Making a Muslim
    sub title: reading publics and contesting identities in nineteenth-century north India
  name:
    name part: Zaidi, S. Akbar
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: How do ideas shape government decision making? Comparativist scholarship has conventionally given unbridled primacy to external, material interests, such as votes and rents, as proximately shaping political behavior. Although these logics tend to explicate elite decision making around elections and the predictability of pork barrel politics, they fall short in explaining political conduct during a credibility crisis, such as when governments are faced with a nationwide anti-corruption movement. In such instances of high political uncertainty, the author argues in this book, elite ideas drive government decision making. We have observed such arguments being made in the realm of international relations, American politics and the political economy of development in western Europe, but an account of ideas fueling or sometimes even constraining government action in developing world contexts, where material pressures are high, is found wanting. The purpose of this book is to move beyond the banal claim that ideas matter, and trace where ideas come from, how they are chosen and when they are most salient for explaining political behavior in developing democracies. The study focuses on India, with similar settings, including Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia.
  table of contents: Who is a Muslim? Identities of Exclusion -- Zillat, apne hāthon se -- Main majbūr hu'ā: Print Matters -- Performativity, and Orality in Print.
  note: S. Akbar Zaidi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-234) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Muslims
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: DS432.M84 Z35 2021
  classification: 323.3/8297095409034
  identifier: 9781108490535
  identifier: 1108490530
  identifier: 9781108781152
  identifier: 2020056727
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210105
    record change date: 20220202205601.5
    record identifier: in00004549670