Towards a New Medina: Jinnah, Deobandi Ulama, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial India
Speaker: Prof. Venkat Dhulipala, Assistant Professor of History, University of Northe Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author of Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2014

Chair: Dr. Dilip Simeon

The talk explains how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how  popular Muslim enthusiasm was generated for this idea, especially in the crucial United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) whose Muslim elites played a critical role in Pakistan's creation