Creating a New Medina

Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India ( ISBN   978-1-107-05212-3) is an academic monograph on the Partition of India by Venkat Dhulipala, a Professor of South Asian History at University of North Carolina. The work attracted mixed reception — while Ian Talbot, Gail Minault and David Gilmartin admired the work as a significant intervention, ^{[1] [2] [3]} reviews by Barbara D. Metcalf, Faisal Devji, Yasmin Khan, Manan Ahmed Asif, and Julian Levesque were scathing. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

1. Talbot, Ian (November 2015). "Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India. By Venkat Dhulipala. Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii, 530 pp. 96.00 (e-book, ISBN 9781316258408)" . The Journal of Asian Studies. 74 (4): 1054–1055. doi:10.1017/S0021911815001461. ISSN   0021-9118.
2. Gilmartin, David (February 2015). "The Historiography of India's Partition: Between Civilization and Modernity" . The Journal of Asian Studies. 74 (1): 23–41. doi:10.1017/S0021911814001685. ISSN   0021-9118.
3. Minault, Gail (October 2015). "Review of Venkat Dhulipala — Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India". H-Net: H-Asia Book Reviews.
4. Metcalf, Barbara D. (June 2015). "Review of "Creating a New Medina"". The Book Review . 39 (6).
5. Devji, Faisal (4 October 2015). "Young Fogeys: The Anachronism of New Scholarship on Pakistan". The Wire .
6. Khan, Yasmin (February 2016). "Review of Venkat Dhulipala — Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India" . The American Historical Review. 121 (1): 217–218. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.1.217. ISSN   0002-8762.
7. Asif, Manan Ahmed (1 July 2015). "Excavating the many histories of partition". The Caravan .