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Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani author, politician, diplomat and social-activist whose life bridges the late colonial and post-colonial phases of South Asian history. Her biography illustrates the discursive pressures shaping the lives of upper and intermediate class men and women of her generation, particularly as manifested in the unquestioned tropes of modernization theory. However, the same life reveals that her notion of the tradition-modernity dichotomy does not extend to the equation of Islam with tradition. The secular-religious divide, in fact, does not feature in her thought or activism at all. The latter activism also problematizes the assumption that Muslim women, any more of less than non-Muslims, are marginal or peripheral players in the history of the twentieth century.
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Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah Papers Islamabad National Archives of Pakistan
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Ikramullah Shaista S. “United Nations Discussion on Human Rights and Genocide” Pakistan Horizon 1948 1 4 228 235
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Ikramullah Shaista S. “Some Impressions of Canada” Pakistan Horizon 1953 6 4 148 153
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Ikramullah Shaista S. “The Ordeal of Jordan” Pakistan Horizon 1968 21 3 217 223
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Ikramullah Shaista Suhrawardy “The Role of Women in the Life and Literature of Pakistan” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 1958 106 5025 713 726
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Lambert-Hurley Siobhan “Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915–2000)” The Oxford History of Women in World History 2008 Oxford Oxford University Press [online]
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Pirbhai M. Reza “Pakistan and the Political Awakening of the Muslim ‘New Woman’ 1937–1947” hawwa: Journal of the Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 2014 12 1 35
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Willmer David “Women as Participants in the Pakistan Movement: Modernization and the Promise of the Moral State” Modern Asian Studies 1996 30 3 573 590
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Ahmad Akbar S. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin 1997 London Routledge
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Ikramullah Begum Shaista From Purdah to Parliament 1963 London Cresset Press
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Ikramullah Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy 1991 Karachi Oxford University Press
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Ikramullah Shaista Koshish-i na Tamam 1950 Lahore Maktaba-i Jadid
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Ikramullah Shaista Letters to Neena 1951 Karachi Kitab Publishers
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Ikramullah Shaista Behind the Veil: Ceremonies, Customs, and Colour 1992 Karachi Oxford University Press
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Ikramullah Shaista Akhtar Handbook of Urdu Literature: Including a Critical Survey of the Development of Urdu Literature 2003 New Delhi Indigo Books
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Ikramullah Shaista Suhrawardy & Siddiqi Muhammad Ali Common Heritage 1997 Karachi Oxford University Press
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Ikramullah Shaista Suhrawardy Dilli ke Khawatin ki Kahawaten aur Muhavare 2005 Karachi Oxford University Press
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Ikramullah Shaista Suhrawardy Salim Ahmad Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah ki Muntakhab Tahriren: Mahnamah ʿIsmat 1934 ta 1988 2007 Karachi Oxford University Press
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Jalal Ayesha Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850 2000 London Routledge
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Minault Gail Secluded Scholars: Women’s Education and Muslim Social Reform in Colonial India 1998 Delhi Oxford University Press
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Mumtaz Khawar & Shaheed Farida Women of Pakistan 1987 London Zed Books
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Papanek Hanna & Minault Gail Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia 1982 Columbia South Asia Books
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Saigol Rubina The Pakistan Perspective: A Feminist Perspective on Nation and Identity 2013 New Delhi Women Unlimited
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Shahnawaz Jahanara Father and Daughter: A Political Autobiography 2002 Karachi Oxford University Press
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Talbot Ian & Singh Gurharpal The Partition of India 2009 New York Cambridge University Press
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Begum Naz Ikramullah Ashraf by M. Reza Pirbhai (Karachi, May 2016)
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hrh Princess Sarvath al-Hasan of Jordan by M. Reza Pirbhai (Amman, Feb. 2016)
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1
For example, see, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, “Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (1915–2000),” in The Oxford History of Women in World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, [online] 2008).
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4
Ibid., p. 13.
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5
Ibid., p. 29.
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6
Ibid., p. 28.
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9
Ibid., pp. 64–65.
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10
Ibid., p. 72.
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11
Ibid., p. 72.
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12
Ibid., p. 73.
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13
Ibid., p. 73.
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14
Ibid., pp. 76–77.
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15
Ibid., pp. 79–80.
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16
Ibid., p. 83.
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17
Ibid., pp. 83–84.
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19
Ibid., pp. 90, 164.
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20
Ibid., p. 12.
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21
Ibid., p. 13.
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22
Ibid., p. 13.
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23
Ibid., p. 14.
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24
Ibid., p. 15.
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26
Ibid., p. 48.
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27
Ibid., pp. 85–87.
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28
Ibid., pp. 86–87.
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29
Ibid., pp. 87–88. Also see, Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah Papers, File 293, pp. 172–173.
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32
Ibid., pp. 181–82.
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34
Ibid., p. 92.
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35
Ibid., 99.
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36
For example, see, David Willmer, “Women as Participants in the Pakistan Movement: Modernization and the Promise of the Moral State,” Modern Asian Studies 30:3 (1996): 573–90; and, Ayesha Jalal, Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850 (London: Routledge, 2000), p. 464.
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38
See, for example, Akbar S. Ahmad, Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin (London: Routledge, 1997).
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40
Ibid., p. 237.
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41
Ibid., p. 240.
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42
Ibid., p. 240.
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44
Ibid., p. 149.
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45
Ibid., p. 149.
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46
Ibid., p. 154.
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47
Ibid., pp. 154–155.
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48
Ibid., p. 154.
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49
Ibid., p. 158.
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50
Ibid., p. 159.
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54
Shahnawaz, p. 229.
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56
Shahnawaz, p. 232.
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61
Shaista S. Ikramullah, “United Nations Discussion on Human Rights and Genocide,” Pakistan Horizon 1:4 (1948): 228–235.
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64
Shaista Ikramullah, Letters to Neena (Karachi: Kitab Publishers, 1951), p. 2.
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65
Ibid., p. 3.
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66
Ibid., p. 3.
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67
Ibid., p. 5.
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68
Ibid., p. 6.
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71
Ibid., p. 23.
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72
Ibid., pp. 4–5, 23.
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73
Ibid., p. 23.
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74
Ibid., p. 7.
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75
Ibid., pp. 24–5.
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76
Ibid., p. 24.
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77
Ibid., p. 22.
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78
Ibid., p. 45.
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79
Ibid., pp. 45–6.
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80
Ibid., p. 47.
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81
Ibid., p. 43.
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82
Shaista Ikramullah, Behind the Veil: Ceremonies, Customs, and Colour (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. xxi.
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83
Ibid., p. xiv.
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84
Ibid., p. 3.
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85
Ibid., p. 95.
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86
Ibid., pp. 190–191.
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87
Ibid., p. xxvii.
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88
Ibid., pp. 187–188.
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89
Ibid., pp. 43–44.
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94
Ibid., p. xviii.
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95
Shaista S. Ikramullah, “Some Impressions of Canada,” Pakistan Horizon 6:4 (1953): 148–153.
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103
Shaista S. Ikramullah, “The Ordeal of Jordan,” Pakistan Horizon 21:3 (1968): 217–223.
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109
See, Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Dilli ke Khawatin ki Kahawaten aur Muhavare (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2005). The biography is variously cited above.
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Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani author, politician, diplomat and social-activist whose life bridges the late colonial and post-colonial phases of South Asian history. Her biography illustrates the discursive pressures shaping the lives of upper and intermediate class men and women of her generation, particularly as manifested in the unquestioned tropes of modernization theory. However, the same life reveals that her notion of the tradition-modernity dichotomy does not extend to the equation of Islam with tradition. The secular-religious divide, in fact, does not feature in her thought or activism at all. The latter activism also problematizes the assumption that Muslim women, any more of less than non-Muslims, are marginal or peripheral players in the history of the twentieth century.
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