By Ashis Sengupta

ISBN-10: 147425070X

ISBN-13: 9781474250702

ISBN-10: 1474250718

ISBN-13: 9781474250719

Islam in Performance brings jointly six modern performs from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that spotlight the political functionality of Islam in South Asia, in particular because the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.

The performs invite comparability with each other, enticing with the difficulty from views of the 3 international locations involved: Hindutva politics in India othering the Muslim inhabitants for electoral earnings, radical Islamization of Pakistan paralyzing political governance and inspiring jihadi violence, and the ever-increasing Islamist danger to Bangladesh's founding secular ethos. eventually, this anthology makes a speciality of the affliction such exclusionary politics of non secular nationalism has piled upon minorities around the sector. largely played yet principally unpublished, the performs with their geographic and stylistic variety supply an outstanding spectrum of a few of the easiest writing in modern South Asian drama.

The editor's scholarly creation bargains a framework for learning the performs as either texts and function pieces.

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