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Islamic Reform and Colonial Discourse on Modernity in India

Part of the Postcolonialism and Religions Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137378842

ISBN: 978-1-349-48040-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 15, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 1 –20

[Its strategic location on the ancient trade map of the Indian Ocean World, its extensive open west coast, and the availability of pepper1 and other valuable products in it attracted many foreign merchants to the Kerala coast from very early times. The history of trade between West Asia and...
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Chapter 2Vakkom Moulavi: Biographical Details

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 21 –42

[Vakkom Moulavi is known as the “father” of the Muslim socioreligious reform movement in Kerala. He effectively used communication networks to promote his ideas of patriotism, modern education, and religious reform. The son of an educated and wealthy merchant, he received a well-rounded...
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Chapter 3Swadeshabhimani and Identity Politics in Kerala

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 43 –64

[Swadeshabhimani occupies a glorious chapter in the modern history of Kerala. Vakkom Moulavi and his editor Ramakrishna Pillai used Swadeshabhimani to challenge the socio-political structures of Travancore and to lay the foundation for the nationalist movement in Kerala. Namboodiris and Nairs...
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Chapter 4Contributions to Educational Reform

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 65 –88

[Colonial discourse assumed that the “Orient” is in “decline” and that it is in need of the “enlightened” rule of the British in order to develop and civilize. The British introduced modern education as a means of implementing their “civilizing mission” and of modernizing Kerala society....
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Chapter 5Promotion of Islamic Reform

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 89 –114

[This chapter will argue that Vakkom Moulavi, like other Muslim modernists, was influenced by the European understanding of Oriental degeneracy and that therefore, he believed in the decline of both the medieval and contemporary Muslims. This, according to him, necessitated initiating religious...
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Chapter 6Representing Islamic Modernity

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 115 –135

[Vakkom Moulavi’s appropriation of modernity cannot be read within the framework of a simple cause-and-effect trajectory in which the colonizer acted and the colonized reacted. Such a reading would take away Vakkom Moulavi’s agency and delineate him as one of the “simple-hearted victims of...
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Chapter 7Community Mobilization

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 137 –165

[At the beginning of the twentieth century, Kerala society witnessed the emergence of a number of communal and social organizations. These organizations played a significant role in mobilizing communities in order to demand their rights and privileges from the government as well as to spread the...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Abraham, Jose

Pages: 167 –173

[This study has shown that the socio-religious reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were radically different from similar movements in the past. It was largely shaped by the colonial discourse on modernity. Colonialism was much more than another account of economic and...

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