文档介绍：BEYOND HINDU AND MUSLIM
BEYOND HINDU AND MUSLIM
Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India
PETER GOTTSCHALK
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2000
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gottschalk, Peter, 1963–
Beyond Hindu and Muslim : multiple identity in
narratives from village India / Peter Gottschalk.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-513514-8
1. India—Ethnic relations. 2. Group identity—India. 3. Ethnicity—India.
4. Muslims—India. 5. Hindus—India. 6. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Title.
DS430 .G66 2000
'00954—dc21 99-046737
135798642
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
Dedicated, with deep gratitude, to the people of Bhabhua district,
who opened their lives
and their hearts
to me
(“We are all foreign to each other.”)
—Bhoju Ram Gopal
(“There, behind barbed wire, was India.
Over there, behind more barbed wire, was Pakistan.
In the middle, on a piece of ground which had no name, lay
Toba Tek Singh.”)
—Saadat Hasan Manto,
“Toba Tek Singh”
Acknowledgments
he first note of thanks goes to the residents of the Arampur area, whose
T generosity and trust allowed me to share in so many dimensions of their
selves. It is impossible fo