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SUMMARY:The space of the mohalla: from Congress to communal geographies in
  the interwar Delhi - Dr Stephen Legg\, University of Nottingham
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:This paper will examine the mohallas (urban\, sometimes walled
 \, communities) of Delhi as both material spaces that can be mapped and sp
 atially reconstructed using the colonial archive\, but also as spaces that
  were politically mobilised and restructured in the interwar years. Augmen
 ting existing literature on mohallas as sites for Muslim organisational pe
 netration (Malik 1993)\, cultural identification (Dayal 1975\; Pernau 2013
 ) and political mobilisation (Masselos2007\; Spodek 2011)\, this paper wil
 l look at how mohallas became spaces for rival penetration (eg Congress\, 
 RSSS and Muslim National Guard) and the scale at which biopolitical and in
 creasingly militaristic conducting of local populations pre-partitioned De
 lhi in the 1940s.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambri
 dge CB3 9DT
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