Introduction. Islamicate Lucknow Today: Historical Legacy and Urban Aspirations

Susewind, Raphael; Taylor, Christopher B.

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“…However, in Muslims in Indian Cities, Lucknow does constitute a special case, since Verniers (2012) chose to focus his case study on the sectarian strife between Shia and Sunni Muslims rather than the relations between Muslims and non-Muslims per se. Since sectarian demography cannot be reliably established using name-matching technology, I cannot compare his chapter with my quantitative segregation indices (however, see figure 5 in Susewind and Taylor, 2015 for an experimental attempt to map sectarian demography in Lucknow).…”

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Muslims in Indian cities: Degrees of segregation and the elusive ghetto

Susewind

2017

Environ Plan A

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In India, the country with the third largest Muslim population in the world, residential segregation along religious lines has long been of concern. Many go so far as to speak of the large-scale 'ghettoization' of Muslims, a trend commonly attributed to the state's negligence towards this religious minority and prolonged histories of so-called 'communal' violence between religious groups. Others emphasize long-standing pattern of residential clustering in enclaves and claim that these have always been voluntary. Both the ghetto and the enclave are usually considered highly segregated spaces, though. This paper complicates such views through an in-depth engagement with the seminal ethnographic volume Muslims in Indian Cities, edited by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot. Based on novel quantitative estimates of religious demography, I contrast and compare the same 11 cities studied in their book-Mumbai,

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Muslims in Indian cities: Degrees of segregation and the elusive ghetto

Susewind

2017

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“…Lucknow is a city of around 3 million people located roughly in between Delhi and Kolkata (see figure 2). It is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and politically influential state but reels under a dysfunctional economy and underperforms on many development indicators compared to other parts of the country (see Graff 1997;Susewind and Taylor 2015 for recent portraits of the city and Susewind 2019 for an interactive mapping portal including a number of demographic and socioe-economic data layers). As a city of historical format, the spiritual centre for Shiism on the subcontinent boasts centuries of exchange with the Persian world and is often portrayed as the stereotype of an Islamicate, North Indian urban centre (Gayer and Jaffrelot 2012).…”

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Rifah-e Aam Club, Lucknow: Public sphere and public space in urban India

Susewind

2020

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Sacred Time and Religious Violence: Evidence from Hindu-Muslim Riots in India

Allie

2023

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How and when can religious times become focal points for communal violence? In the context of Hindu-Muslim riots in India, I argue that incompatible ritual holidays where one religion’s rituals are at odds with another (e.g., sacrificing cows or engaging in processions with idolatry) help explain the positive effect of sacred time on religious rioting. Holidays with incompatible rituals provide doctrinal differences that make riots more likely. These types of holidays can be used by riot entrepreneurs to incite violence or can independently raise an individual’s willingness to engage in violence. I provide support for this argument by analyzing data on Hindu-Muslim riots across 100 years. I investigate the mechanisms through additional analysis and examining historical and present-day cases of riots that occurred on holidays. By focusing on the content of religion, this paper demonstrates how particular religious holidays can provide the underlying conditions that elites use to incite religious violence.

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Introduction. Islamicate Lucknow Today: Historical Legacy and Urban Aspirations

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Muslims in Indian cities: Degrees of segregation and the elusive ghetto

Muslims in Indian cities: Degrees of segregation and the elusive ghetto

Rifah-e Aam Club, Lucknow: Public sphere and public space in urban India

Sacred Time and Religious Violence: Evidence from Hindu-Muslim Riots in India

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