Terry Williams, Raza Mohammed Khan

The Vanishing Indian Upper Class (eBook, PDF)

Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan

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Produktbeschreibung

The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is a story necessary to the life, the times and the action as told and provides a basic narrative tension by what I refer to as an ethnographic excavation, because it begins to answer the basic question of how the story extend beyond the life history of one person. Sociologist Howard Becker considering the situation of the life history document in sociology stressed the "importance of presenting the actors subjective situation of the person's experiences and on "giving context in which he undergoes his social experiences." Becker recognized life history data as an important source for theory and a "means of testing concepts." In this way life history data seen as material offering basic evidence about social interaction and process because it "offers a vivid telling of what it means to be a certain kind of person."

This book concerns issues of gender, the role of women, inheritance, male privilege, ruling elites, marriage, the caste system, poverty, greed and familial betrayal.The idea of betrayal-one of the central tenets of the human condition-is much on display in this text. At the core of the book is a fundamental question: to what extent does the chicanery involving a family inheritance tell a much larger story about modern Indian culture from the perspective of an Indian Muslim and the nation as a whole.

The story is about the family of Raza Muhammad Khan and its legacy of honor, compassion, love, sacrifice, betrayal and dividing up land. This is an engaging family history intertwined with the story of one person's life and memories. As interlocutor I know a true-life history involves more than conversations and the material here provides other forms of personal documentations: letters, e-mails, photographs, illustrations, notes, poems, stories and accounts written by different family members, limited life histories, autobiographical accounts, and court records all as a source of knowledge. Oscar Lewis related similar sentiments when he wrote about The Sanchez Family in Mexico and sociologists William Thomas and Florian Znaniecki's did the same in The Polish Peasant in Europe and America.

The most important early life history documents in sociology William Thomas and Florian Znaniecski. (1918). The Polish Peasant in Europe and America. University of Chicago, which was part of the early Chicago School tradition. Psychologist Gordon Allport argued that of the three main forms of life history writing: the comprehensive; the topical; the edited, with the former being the most difficult to pull off. And there are many studies of significance purported to be life histories. Clifford Shaw. (1930). The Jack Roller. University of Chicago Press; Edwin Sutherland. (1937) The Professional Thief. University of Chicago Press; The best life histories in the social science tradition; Oscar Lewis. (1963) The Sanchez Family. Vintage Books; Theodore Rosengarten. (1974) All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. University of Chicago Press; Sidney Mintz. (1974) Cane Worker: The Life of a Puerto Rican. W.W. Norton Company; Leo Simmons. (1970) Sun Chief:The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian. Yale University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785274442
• Artikelnr.: 63604249

Inhaltsangabe

Part One
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Family Tapestry
Chapter 3 Amadabad's Zenith: The Life and Times of Nawab Ali Mohammad
Chapter 4 Nawab Dawood Ahmad
Chapter 5 Raza's Early Childhood
Chapter 6 Raza's Later Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 7 Beginning of an Exile: Boarding School
Chapter 8 The Wedding of Zainab and Hurr
Chapter 9 Abid Arrives to Join Raza
Chapter 10 The School Rebel
Chapter 11 Crammers
Chapter 12 Secret Love
Chapter 13 Journey Home
Chapter 14 Return to London and Shireen
Chapter 15 Farewell to Shireen
Chapter 16 Down but Not Out
Chapter 17 The Garret
Part Two Ithaka
Chapter 18 An Indian Odyssey
Chapter 19 Nawab Dawood Ahmad in Pakistan
Chapter 20 Bombay Itinerary
Chapter 21 The Return
Chapter 22 Raza's Second Aldermaston March
Chapter 23 Tess and Raza
Part Three
Chapter 24 The Decline
Chapter 25 Ibn Dawood's Claim
Chapter 26 Ibn Dawood's Victory
Chapter 27 Raza and Maysam
Chapter 28 The Ugly Portraits of Ibn Dawood and Begum
Chapter 29 The Sad and Tragic Deaths of Hurr Bhai and Zainab Baji
Chapter 30 Raza Visits His Ailing Sister
Chapter 31 Tragic Ends
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index.