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Mahmood Asad Madani (born 3 March 1964) is an Indian Islamic scholar, activist, politician, and president of the Mahmood faction of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind religious organisation. He formerly served as the general secretary of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JUH), and as member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) party in the Rajya Sabha (the Indian upper house) in the state of Uttar Pradesh from 2006 to 2012.
Apr 22, 2023 · The change in assumptions is testament to the scale of the impact of the work of Ugandan political theorist Mahmood Mamdani, including among many who have never read anything by him. A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust.
Jan 22, 2024 · Mahmood Mamdani’s latest work, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, delves into the intricate genealogy of political modernity, scrutinising the entwined narratives of nation-states and colonial states. The Uganda-born author, a distinguished professor at Columbia University, contends that the foundations of the modern state were laid in 1492 when the Castilian monarchy pursued a homogeneous national homeland by ejecting and converting those ...
Sep 13, 2012 · Mahmood Mamdani. 3849 words. A new form of colonialism was born in the second half of the 19 th century, largely in response to the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Of its many theorists by far the most influential was Henry Maine, a brilliant historian of jurisprudence, barrister, journalist, colonial civil servant and eventually master of Trinity Hall ...
Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974 and specializes in the study of African history and politics. His works explore the intersection between politics and culture, a comparative study of colonialism since 1452, the history of civil war and genocide in Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, and the history and theory of human rights.
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism Mahmood Mamdani. In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local...
Mar 27, 2023 · Professor Mahmood Mamdani (Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology, Political Science and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Af...
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