Gender and sharafat: re-reading Nazir Ahmad

Autor:	Ruby Lal
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Scrutiny History General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Repentance Colonialism language.human_language State (polity) Reading (process) language Urdu Religious studies Indian Penal Code media_common Persian
Zdroj:	Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 18:15-30
ISSN:	2051-2066 0035-869X
DOI:	10.1017/s1356186307007754
Popis:	This article considers two well-known texts that deal with questions of education and appropriate conduct for respectable Muslims in colonial India. The texts under scrutiny are Mirat al-Arus (The Bride's Mirror), and the Taubat-al-Nasuh (Repentance of Nasuh), completed in 1867–68 and 1873 respectively. The author was a Muslim publicist and a prolific writer who published numerous books in diverse genres. Nazir Ahmed (1830–1912) came from a family of distinguished maulavis and muftis of Bijnor (in the state of Uttar Pradesh) and Delhi. His father, a teacher in a small town near Bijnor, taught him Persian and Arabic. In 1846, Nazir Ahmad enrolled at the Delhi College and studied there till 1853. He began his career as a maulavi in Arabic, but soon (in 1856) became a deputy inspector of schools in the Department of Public Instruction. Later, after he had produced a superb translation of the Indian Penal Code in Urdu, he was nominated for the Revenue Service. He was posted as deputy collector in what was then called the North-West Provinces (i.e. modern U.P.), whence the name ‘Diptee (Deputy) Nazir Ahmad’ by which he is popularly known.
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