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Donnerstag | 16.15 Uhr | The All-India Khilafat Committee in the Age of Minority Rights: An Alternative History, 1917-1932 - Roy Bar Sadeh - Freie Universität Berlin Departmental Colloquium Summer Semester 2024 - History Department | Session 4: 06.06.2024 Dr. Roy Bar Sadeh - Freie Universität Berlin The All-India Khilafat Committee (AIKC; est. 1919) was an Indian Muslim organization that aimed to prevent the disintegration of the Ottoman Caliphate (abolished in 1924) and impede formal and informal European colonial control over former Ottoman territories. Simultaneously, the AIKC activists, “the Khilafists,” tied their mass campaigns to anti-colonial and trans-religious activism, most notably the Gandhi-led Noncooperation Movement (1919–1922) and its struggle for Indian “Home Rule.” With very few exceptions, most studies on the AIKC have placed it within the realms of “composite Indian nationalism” or “pan-Islamism.” This presentation, however, offers an alternative framework to understand its history. Tying the prehistory, emergence, and activities of the AIKC to changing norms and visions of religious and social difference, this presentation argues that AIKC’s activists offered various creative “solutions” to growing regional and international debates about the place of minorities in emerging ethnonational polities. Focusing Adresse Südasien-Institut Gebäude 4130, Raum 010.01.05 Voßstr. 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Veranstaltung https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php Veranstalter Südasien-Institut Homepage Veranstalter Kontakt URL https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/history/kolloquium/kolloquium.php |