“Hindustan Is a Dream”: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Intimacy

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9435456

A. Taneja

引用次数: 2

Abstract

In a time of dominant Hindu nationalism and rising Islamophobia in India, Urdu poetry is the medium in which an alternative political theology finds popular articulation, questioning the “normative horizon” of the nation-state. The political theology being articulated through Urdu poetry is one that is concerned not with the state, but with the constitution of the self through a network of thick relations to locality. The vision articulated by this alternate political theology—which draws on both long-standing Indo-Islamic traditions and the lived experience of Indian democracy—calls for a radical reimagining of intimate relations as the basis of belonging and the forming of political community.

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“印度斯坦是一个梦想”：乌尔都语诗歌与亲密关系的政治神学

在印度占主导地位的印度教民族主义和日益高涨的伊斯兰恐惧症时代，乌尔都语诗歌是另一种政治神学流行表达的媒介，质疑民族国家的“规范视野”。通过乌尔都语诗歌表达的政治神学与国家无关，而是通过与地方的紧密关系网络来关注自我的构成。这种另类政治神学既借鉴了长期存在的印度-伊斯兰传统，又借鉴了印度民主的生活经验，它所阐述的愿景呼吁彻底重新构想亲密关系，将其作为归属和政治共同体形成的基础。

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