Haj to utopia: how the Ghadar movement charted global radicalism and attempted to overthrow the British Empire

Singh, Gagan Preet

doi:10.1080/09584935.2014.902665

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“…Instead, Sikh Punjabi men found community in working-class labor movements. Many were radicalized in fields and factories through their interactions with the Industrial Workers of the World and other unions, which connected transnational labor rights to an anarchist struggle against capitalist wage labor (Ramnath, 2011). The Gadar Party emerged as a result.…”

Section: Sikh (American) Politics: Subversion To Subserviencementioning

confidence: 99%

The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

Kaur

Tran

2023

Sociology Compass

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This paper argues existing scholarship on Asian American communities is limited by an assumption that incorporation into the US can productively address racial and economic precarity. As an alternative, we offer "Extinguishing Asian (American) Insurgency", a theoretical framework that incorporates histories of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonial politics of incorporation into contemporary sociological analyses of Asian subject formation. Applying Du Boisian sociology alongside Frantz Fanon and Joy James, the framework adopts a global, relational analysis of Asian Americans and the US state. We demonstrate the framework's utility through two case studies: anti-colonial Sikh diasporic politics through the Gadar Party and US state efforts to tie diasporic South Vietnamese identity to an anti-communist politic. As such, we encourage the study of alternative possibilities of Asian subject formation that are extinguished by state incorporation, particularly through imperialism and military serivce. Specifically, we address sociologists who extinguish the insurgent Asian American subject in their scholarship by assuming incorporation and pro-state politics as a natural end goal of migration, or those who simply do not name the US as the institutional force extinguishing possibilities of Asian Americans' insurgency.

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Section: Sikh (American) Politics: Subversion To Subserviencementioning

confidence: 99%

The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

Kaur

Tran

2023

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“…The relationship between Islam and the Left in 20th century South Asia was shaped by different conjunctures in global and local politics, in particular, the interaction of socialist internationalism with anti‐colonial organising, and thereafter, anti‐authoritarian politics until the mid‐1970s 13 The form and content of the relationship developed and changed through encounters with Bolshevik internationalism, Third World socialism, and Black Maoism. Muslim students, political activists, ulama and Sufi saints, mobile labourers, and exilic communities, who travelled to and within socialist geographies, and participated in transregional Left or anticolonial networks generated progressive ideas and politics and cultivated Left activity in South Asia (Ramnath, 2011; Raza, 2020; Raza, Roy and Zachariah, 2015; Saikia, 2016, 2017; Stolte, 2021). Circulating global ideas and practices of equality, freedom and justice transformed in their encounter with local vernaculars.…”

Section: Islamic Socialism In Colonial and Postcolonial Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Humayun Ansari's pioneering text The Emergence of Socialist Thought among North Indian Muslims, tracing the development of two generations of Muslim socialists in colonial India, explores this relationship between Islamic reform, socialist internationalism and anticolonial politics (Ansari, 1990). Later studies have since built upon and expanded our understanding of Muslim Left internationalism, pan‐Islamist movements and global anti‐imperialist networks such as the Ghadar Party during this period (Ramnath, 2011; Raza, 2020; Tirmizey, 2018). Ansari makes several key arguments about how Muslims become socialists.…”

Section: Islamic Socialism In Colonial and Postcolonial Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…She shows how both Maulvi Barkatullah Bhopali and Maulana ‘Ubaydullah Sindhi saw Islam and Socialism as, if not completely interchangeable, at least “eminently compatible”. Ramnath argues that both figures “seamlessly” wove together political vocabularies, images and practices from both traditions (Ramnath, 2011).…”

Section: Islamic Socialism In Colonial and Postcolonial Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other scholarship shows how Bolshevik Central Asia emerged as a site of immense political, intellectual and affective value for Muslim socialists, even for those who did not end up going there (Chattopadhyay, 2011; Raza, 2020; Stolte, 2021). Additionally, the Indo‐Afghan frontiers, as well as Afghanistan itself, were important sites of Islamist Socialist politics and imaginaries (Caron, 2016; Saikia, 2016), described as “uncolonisable”, “ azad ” (free) (Saikia, 2016), and the “Japan of South Asia” (Ramnath, 2011) by Muslim socialists This work suggests new ways scholars can develop the relationship of South Asian Islam to Afghanistan contra to the overwhelming studies on terrorism, tribalism or ethnic nationalism. However, our understanding of the different geographies of Islamic Socialism remains underdeveloped.…”

Section: Network Of Islamic Socialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

Uddin

2023

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In the early 20th century, colonised people across empires rejected their status quo with visions and articulations of different emancipatory futures. The more radical and creative of these projects fused socialist thought with national, cultural or religious traditions. Grounded in ideas of equality, redistribution and common ownership, these visions offered futures of freedom beyond nationalism. Islamic Socialism was one of these revolutionary currents alongside Arab socialism, African socialism and Black Liberation Theology. The article reviews the historical scholarship on the relationship between Muslims and Left politics in 20th century South Asia and proposes Islamic Socialism as a new field of study. Some of the earliest articulations and enduring commitment to the politics of Islamic Socialism emerged from South Asia, yet the topic is not easily located in the existing scholarship on the region or elsewhere. Employing a diverse set of texts, I show how we can approach through three categories ‐ time, space, and ideas– and map out subaltern Islam as a future area of research. Existing studies have treated Islamic Socialism variously as crude readings of Islam and Marxism, an immemorial Islamic tradition, the intellectual product of theoretical congruence, or as a novel and creative experiment. Reflecting on its minor status in historiography, the article argues for the importance of Islamic Socialism in thinking beyond Islamic literalism and furthering our understanding of decolonisation experiments, everyday subaltern politics, and the possibilities for Marxism and Islam in the Global South.

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Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response

Waldinger

Shams

2023

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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The global dimensions of diasporic politics and state response have generated a large, interdisciplinary literature. Yet, scholars struggle to find the most productive conceptual tools, as one literature, at point of origin, studies emigration and the other, at point of destination, studies immigration. The transnational turn in the social sciences four decades ago propelled scholars to study cross-border political mobilization by viewing immigration and emigration as two sides of the same coin. This article provides a guide to this scholarship. We show how the political nature of cross-border movements creates and circumscribes conditions for diasporic political mobilization. We then identify the different types of cross-border political activities and the modalities of corresponding home state policies. We conclude by reflecting how the world today has changed since the geopolitical moment in which the transnational turn was born and what these changes mean for studying immigrant and emigrant cross-border politics. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 49 is July 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Haj to utopia: how the Ghadar movement charted global radicalism and attempted to overthrow the British Empire

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The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects

Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response

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